The Face Of God Poem by Roy Lee

The Face Of God

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What did you see?
Voyager looking back.
Did you see me?
A blue speck in a pack
Of sparkles on a dark sea.

Humanity evolved
To making love or war
Over beliefs unsolved
Or for,

Temporal features
Forgetting we were all
Primordial creatures
Crawling from a sea floor
Blind onto rocky beaches
Wanting more.

What do we fear?
When we escape from below
Beyond this dogmatic sphere
Into that cosmic glow
When the heavens appear.

Our claw in space,
A primitive celestial pod
Seeks to kiss the face
Of God.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
'The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. 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. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.' Sagan, Carl (1994) . Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1st ed.) . New York: Random House

*‘Pale Blue Dot' Last photo looking back from Voyager 1 as it left the solar system

*Differences in cosmic background radiation reflects conditions back in time to the origins of the universe ' like seeing the face of God' George Smoot
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Roy Lee

Roy Lee

Sydney, Australia
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