The Edge of the Cosmos

....we want to see over the edge

The Edge of the Cosmos

 

 

At the edge of the cosmos,

light bends the curvature of space

and we can not yet

see beyond.

Perhaps,

even in millennia to come

we may never find all

that we are looking for, as

the cosmos and her mysteries

will forever haunt.

 

We humans,

evolving from ocean scum

and star dust before this,

have curious minds,

we need to know what is out there;

and who we are.

Even the slaves of old,

too often accepted their fate

not knowing what lie

on the other side of the river;

not having the hope

that life could be different,

better.

 

Same is true for people today;

the bottom dwellers

who live in the ghettos,

barrios,

and cesspools of the world’s citadels,

lack the hope,

do not see they can overthrow

the traditions and powers

that holds them down.

 

Hope is a dangerous thing!

 

It allows creative minds

not only to dream,

but to find the pathways,

the methods and means,

the ideologies

to overthrow their chains

and create a new.

 

Revolution!

A new communist dawn!

 

After the dust settles,

and our hopes soar ever higher,

we may once again dream;

and like the first great migration

out of Africa

thousands of millennia ago,

spread out through the cosmos

getting closer to seeing over

the cosmic edge.

 

Aztec Warrior/redzone 8.11.21

Author's Note

....thanks for reading

Reviews

[sharonlee]

I'm ready for a revolution ... should I live that long.

[redzone]

while no one has a crystal ball that tells us what will happen in our future, there are indications that radical change is on the horizon, the possibilities for a cleansing revolution is there but it must be seized.... the world as a whole is more divided than ever before and we are headed for a show down.. will it be a radical reactionary, fascist or a revolutionary progressive that wins out???

so yes, Sharonlee I think it very possible that you will live to see it, you will live that long.... never forget that there are times in our history where 20 years were captured in a day.... and everyone, everywhere will be forced to choose sides... in many ways unlike before the very future of our planet, life itself, will be determined....

thanks Sharonlee, I always appreciate your comments and for your visits... please be well my friend...

[sharonlee]

... in the meantime I will endeavour to fight with my words and art... x

[h d e rushin]

"when we speak of outer space remember that the earth itself is in space", Neil deGrasse Tyson. So true, what you've intimated about hope. But wish as I often do, hope is no more a strategy as it is a method. Especially now with a steady stream of Afghan, Eurasian, Honduran, Haitian, Eritrean, Mexican, Bosnian,
etc. looking for dreams beyond their own circumstances. Not to mention the countless of America's forgotten that go to war, each weekend to defend a turf that is not theirs. Which goes to the central point of poetry ; that old rhyming, parochial s**t of the 16th century to the post modernist, congregational rectus-love-blues of today, the point of it hasn't changed. To make bricks without straw.......nicely written....dana

[redzone]

love Neil deGrasse Tyson, he put together a spectacular Cosmos and it had a much more urgent and critical edge than Sagan's.... he went where Sagan feared to go and as a result an fuller, richer exploration of our world and universe...

you are of course right HOPE is neither strategy or method, but in hope, giving people hope makes it possible for then to not only see possibilities for a better world and future, but the desire to act on those possibilities.... in todaays world, there is such a strategy with means and methods for a revolution that has a chance of winning... a far better chance than what we had back "in the day"... and as more people become aware of this strategy, its method and approach, people will put everything on the line for that revolution... majing hope, dreams and visions, a reality...
and Dana, we poets have a responsibility to bring that hope forward, or as you rightly say, make bricks without straw....

thank you Dana for your thought provoking review and for your visit... both are greatly appreciated...