(In)significance

I recently acquired an image of the Pale Blue Dot. In 1990 NASA commanded the spacecraft Voyager 1 to turn its camera around before exiting our planetary system for one last picture of home. The photo set me to thinking.

(In)significance

The night sky a reminder

of unknown worlds light-years

                                   distant.

The star-scape a redemption

from the overbearing sun.

Our own burning luminary,

mastermind behind the Aurora.

Despite its confidence in being

    the center of the universe

it remains a trivial flame,

ablaze in a forgotten outpost.

An "en passant" solar system

in the Milky Way

itself a bantam galaxy nestled

                 between billions of others

with Sol only a provincial official

                                on the periphery.

But I puzzle how can this be 

since the cosmos clearly revolves 

                                          around me.

Marilyn Aschoff Mellor