Universe Bloom

Universe bloom

We are small in time and space
But how to see it
How to really feel it?
How to infuse the medicine
Of my smallness
Into my veins?

Copernicus told us we're not the center
But still
We feel like we are

Today --
The sweeping of the floor
The chopping of the vegetables 
The "have to do's"

Today --
Is best approached
Not from a yarn
Of "not enough":
"Not enough time
Not clean enough
Late..."

But from the lens of rareness
How rare is a messy apartment
As a form
Among the milky way?
Rarer still, among the universe

Planet earth 
Is a rare grapevine
Hanging
In the great empty
Where these rare fruits
Messy apartments 
Can be found

"Clean your room"
Is good enough advice 
As long as we don't forget
To take stock
And have awe
As good Mr. Sagan reminds

A messy apartment
Is like a delicate cactus bloom
Here today
Another might not come
For a billion years and miles
In the great expanse

The earth is a cactus bloom
In the universe desert
Messy apartment or not
I'll take it
All of it

Yes/