Half an hour up here on the hill
is hardly forty days in the desert. Still,
the spread and distance of the view
and some appreciation of the time
geology took to form it will
challenge bigger egos than mine.
Now, however, realising
just how insignificant we are
doesn't conjure up some God King
whose Intelligent Design proceeds
beyond our human understanding.
Instead, the scale of nature feeds
our curiosity to know
exactly what exists and why and how
it works. We've ditched old miracles
like watery feats and even resurrection.
We no longer need to show
mastery of the supernatural.
Discovering even stars are born
and die leaves our eternity forlorn.
Now miracles are that the universe
exists plus so many unplanned
species of life on Earth ( and one
of them begins to understand ).
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