Villanelle: Cosmic Status
If we add up all that we claim to know,
The sum is zero when compared to Mystery.
We are as nothing in the cosmic show.
Or do you disagree? Maybe it's so
That we are in control, can claim to be,
If we add up all that we claim to know.
If Universe is infinite or so,
Then we're about as trivial as can be.
We are as nothing in the cosmic show.
But if God is, well, then: there you go:
Perhaps God made it all and let us see
If we could claim to add up what we know.
Irrelevant or godly? Hard to know--
A or B? And might there be an option C
In which when we discover all we know,
We're more than nothing in this cosmic show?
Hans Ostrom 2008 Hans Ostrom
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