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Like an Ant.

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To the mountain,
     Who are we?
So small against its grandeur.

To the eagle,
     What are we?  
Odd-lesser beings—chaining themselves to the ground
Rather than embracing the freedom of forever.

To the leopard,
     Who are we?
Noisy, clumsy, oblivious, obvious
So unlike her own graceful mastery

To the human,
     Who are we?
Empowered, all powered, all worthy and
All knowing. All is ours.

Or is it?

For, to an ant,
     We might be

Just a mountain,
     Grand and great in awesome size
     Yet slow, moving in unconceivable slowness.

Just an eagle,
     High, distant, unconcerned and
     unconcerning.

For, to an ant, there might be
A thousand million uncounted uncountable
    Things to do, things done
    Immeasurable by human minds
Like God.

So limited are we
That we do not care to see
That there may be something somewhere
With a propose greater then our own.
A purpose greater even then
Our minds can comprehend,

Like a:
     Mountain
     Eagle
     Leopard
     Ourselves?


Like an Ant.
This is a response to William Blake's "The Fly". [link] <--- There's a link to the piece, enjoy!

Just a fun piece on the stupid inflexibility of the human mind.

*kittiasher bullied me into adding a link to her similarly-thought piece. Enjoy! [link]

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"By measuring the number and luminosity of observable galaxies in the known universe, astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly seventy billion trillion."
- Maria Temming, How Many Stars Are There in the Universe?

Eustace: "In our world, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Ramandu: "Even in your world, son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
- C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, chapter XIV

"The sun? Conscious? How?" "In a way lower organisms like you have difficulty to grasp. One thought from the source takes longer than a human life. A conversation with other stars takes thousands of your years." "All the stars are conscious?" A dry laughter resounded. "Of course. They are the original inhabitants of the cosmos. Without them there would be no organic life, let alone organic consciousness."
- Elian Lazaro, Elysium

"The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for the duty of moving the planets, and worthy to become the home of God himself."
- Johannes Kepler, The Harmony of the World
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