Pale Blue Dot (Interlude)

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena

On it everyone you love everyone you know

Everyone you ever heard of

Every human being who ever was lived out their lives

Thousands of confident religions ideologies

And economic doctrines

Every teacher of morals every corrupt politician

Every hero and coward

Every creator and destroyer of civilization

Every saint and sinner in the history of our species

Think of the rivers of blood spilled

By all those generals and emperors so that

In glory and triumph they could

Become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot

Our posturings our imagined self-importance

The delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe

Are challenged by this point of pale light

And underscores our responsibility

And to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot