Life is but a long farewell Clawing at eternity's shell A hopeless fight towards entropy's might This fleeting hare brings grave dispair But pointless is our daily dread Of closing the circuit in our bed So keep the pennies on the shelf Existance is the prize itself Of what ego did Augustus suffer To name the month of dermic blusher Did Julius reap the wheat himself To name a month that isn't the twelfth Did butterflies of light divine Flutter through their regal shine Or was it summer's extasy That lent this insight pleasantly Make down the ages people utter Their names when bathing in gold and butter The redshift of dim distant light A fetus of the first bomb site The universe's shock debut Cast baryons, then me and you Our evoluted thought process Shaped science and our mind's egress Man looked upon the pale redshift And thus the cosmic mirror gift Of universe's constant oeuvre Enabling it to self observe
At least I got it out of my system :-)
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