I was privileged to meet the Universe one find and pleasant day, <br />I must confess, it took me by surprise, so I had very little to say. <br />It was vast, deep and mysterious, it beheld me with indifference <br />and filled me with the sense that I overestimate my own significance. <br />It did not seem impressed by our culture or biology <br />I'm sure I perceived a smirk when I introduced it to our science and technology. <br />Had it eyes, they surely would have twinkled. <br />From within a face weathered, wise and wrinkled. <br />When it spoke, it was not with sound; something you could hear <br />but it touched every ounce of me; provoked wonder tinged with fear <br />It suffused my being, permeated to my core <br />And I realised then I never want to know the Universe's roar <br />It said: ' I was here when you came, I was here long before and I will still be here when you are no more <br />I will always be, I have been for all time, I was here in the beginning, I am the stars that shine <br />I am the vacuum, I am matter, I am spacetimes curl <br />I am the debris of colliding galaxies that became your world <br />I am all suns, all moons, every beam of light <br />I am each mote of dust drifting through the perpetual night <br />I am energy and motion, I am all histories unrecovered <br />I am the wonders and mysteries that remain to be discovered <br />your mind cannot contain my empty immensity <br />nor your reason scale my Nature's complexity <br />to know me all is beyond mere human ability <br />so bow your head, embrace humility <br />do not be chagrined, please let me explain <br />these things will not matter when we are one again.'<br /><br />Mike Michaels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/have-you-met-the-universe/
