Look over the house-filled valleys <br /> To where the sky clamps: <br /> Sun smashed, <br /> Moon melted, <br /> Star-pricked <br /> Dome. <br /> <br /> Sombre hint of God’s abyss, <br /> What secrets you might hold! <br /> <br /> What mist veiled, <br /> Sun hazed oceans, <br /> Teem with life? <br /> Sky locked lands, <br /> Coiled, cluttered, acrawl, <br /> Even citied: <br /> Glorious, <br /> Empired science. <br /> <br /> No less hidden than <br /> Microscopic worlds: <br /> Cultured citadels, or just <br /> Bacteria battles under thickening forests <br /> On kitchen floors? <br /> <br /> Electron planet orbits neutron sun, <br /> Vast expanse <br /> To creatures formed of, <br /> Well, <br /> Of what?<br /><br />Paul Butters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/infinity-16/
