Something Small

The size of us

isn’t so very

large at all.

Mars has water,

Pluto has ice mountains,

The moon turns red.

The enormity of it

is astounding and

mildly belittling.

We may be alive,

but those lives are short

and as small as our place.

The size of our problems

is nothing compared to the

size of our egos.

Egos completely dwarfed and

laughed at by the massive

universe around us.

If a universe can laugh,

and I think it can,

just look at us, and you’ll know.

Our smallness is everything,

it’s all we have. We hold onto it

tightly in defiance of our tininess.

A conundrum of the highest

caliber.  Just a little

small of us.