Keep Looking Up

The most important image ever taken, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

For the time being, we are the only ones out there.
There is no life that we will be able to reach, or even talk to, in our lifetimes.
Our solar system gives hints of what was or will be,
Giving life a chance for the day we can no longer stay here.
For throughout the history of man we have fought,
argued, and bashed heads with little times of peace.
We have spilled blood on every continent and every country,
taking lives prematurely due to our hatred for one another.
Yet what is this for?
Resources, power and glory one might say,
but taking a closer look at the cosmic ocean our precious Earth floats in,
we must see that we are nothing more than a speck on the shore.
There is no way we can fully comprehend the size of space,
the trillions of stars that span nearly fifty billion light years across the universe.
Or the number of galaxies that exists, twirling and spinning in the vast seas between one another.
No, I certainly can't comprehend the beauty and the elegance that is contained with out universe,
the beautiful and diverse tapestry that exists even in the largest of scales,
and the smallest of molecules, living in our blood and our tears.
It is a dreamers dream to see the universe, the nebula's and shining stars,
but that too will never be possible with our futile technology.
Yet there is something we can do,
we can stare into the night sky,
see the faces of our ancestors,
the great age we imagine our planet to be,
and see just how small we are,
imagine a expanding valley of stars that stretches farther than we can possibly take in,
and we may touch the edge of the life that is around us.
This feeling; being in the fish eye of the cosmos,
brings me joy and peace no vacation, television show or product ever could.
It makes me wonder why we fight, hate and discriminate
For if we could see the lines of the universe stretched across the sky,
and our minuscule existence played out in less than a flash in the universes grand storm,
our jaws would be dropped, and our minds opened.
We would see the grandest ideas of any human to ever live,
is not beyond a fraction of a blink in the time of the cosmic sea,
not the slightest splash in its waves is found for our ideologies and utopias we force on one another.
Yet we are often too caught up in our everyday problems,
to feel the size we are,
and be humbled in our morality.
Instead we fret and tumble over our problems and griefs,
become frustrated with the days endless hassles,
forgetting how to breathe, how to see life with simple clarity.
What would happen,
if everyone looked up and had these thoughts,
saw their faces in the abyss,
and looked back to those around them?
Would there be more love and understanding,
or would we continue to destroy,
all that has made us be?