Mere Dust

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
~Genesis 2:7 KJV

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Mere dust...
In His dreams
Spheres burn
In crashing reds
And brilliant lazuli

Supernovae scattering
Molten plasma
To the farthest corners of the Universe

Colliding and coalescing into comets and asteroids
Sailing cross the void as specks of

Mere dust...
Settled neath a pane
Inside the spires of Chartres

Centuries yawn o'er the chasm
Whilst seasons bring rain and snow and heat
Galleons ride seas
Mad captains chase treasures in new worlds
Past the ends of the Earth...

Still we remain as

Mere dust...
On parchments laboriously inked
Inscribed with authority by elders
Defying the Crown

Now locked in vaults
We rest in hermetically sealed purgatory
Our cries cannot reach

A deaf world

So we wait as

Mere dust...
In spite of man's aims
The zenith we shall not acquire
In this life

Cast from the Garden
Into the alleys and byways
Of today's maelstrom

Though we once stood
Upon the Moon
Nevertheless we remain as

Mere dust...