An Atoms Tale Is Epic

If I die before tomorrow Though the sun won't shine for me Take pleasure in it's warming glow There's a future there to see No life will last forever The sun will one day fail But not before we've all passed on So who will hear the tale A tree falls in a forest A whale dies in the sea What happens to the birds nest Do the krill sigh with relief For all things have their moments And moments are just that Fleeting blinks of birds eyes While they are swallowing a gnat The movement in those atoms That constitute our food May see them come full circle How oft have they been chewed Eternity is far too short To learn all that is about Everything this world has Is really nowt but nowt In pondering the puzzles That plague us one and all Don't succumb to sorrow When you see the last leaf fall As somewhere in the realms of space In one parallel or two Will be another one of us Who holds a similar view All the atoms that we find here Have been around so long Their air miles are quite staggering But their engines still on song While visions of perpetual motion That man has sought for centuries Can never match these tiny dots that Have whizzed around with endless ease ©Rhumour December 4th 2008 Edited February 5th 2017