Humility from Hubble

Meditations upon and IMAX screening of "Hubble 3D":
Today I saw past the white clouds
I saw past the blue sky,
Past the formidable glow that cocoons the earth.
I witnessed the black airlessness that encapsulates our biosphere
And the paradoxical significant insignificance there within.


I swam amongst the stars for a brief moment of time
Breathlessly witnessing the birth, death and rebirth of cosmic motion.
The artistry with which the universe and all of its phenomena come in and out of being,
The seemingly fragile components that create such portentous events,
Equally beautiful and ominous.


Such abstraction humbles like no other.
I am left in wonder, in awe of creation,
Yet confounded by our willful disconnect to such splendour,
Fed by an anthropocentric understanding of existence.
Today I saw the being of nothingness and the nothingness of being.

Postulations and Expectations

As the disillusionment of youth and the fuzzy warmth of the protective family wears away I begin to wonder what is left of the understanding I had of my earlier days. I find myself hurt most by the realization that my expectations of this world, of humanity, are far too lofty. But how, then, do I begin anew, disregarding all these notions that linger in the locked cupboards and drawers of my mind and heart? Can I save myself from the heartbreak I endure as the film playing in my head depicting the wonders of our human potential runs parallel to the cold, demarcating reality I perceive?
One can hope that with time the imbalance of expectation and reality will slowly level, like a falling leaf that floats undecidedly to the left and to the right, arresting the progress of its motion only as it touches the ground. It is my duty to seek the ground, permeating the hot air of my conjectures and touch that which is.
I concede that the search for what is and what ought to be are easily mistaken and are often entangled, perhaps two sides of the same coin, but what can one expect from the abstraction and extraction of a mere human mind?