[Glenn Wright]

Escape Room

Why is there something instead of nothing?
How did consciousness come to be,
since the arrow of time flies from order to chaos
and things fall apart due to entropy?

Since there is something instead of nothing,
and we have been given the earth for free,
why does the universe want to destroy us
with fire, or ice, or an asteroid? We

can only escape by leaving our planet.
The expanding sun will force us to flee
like spores dispersed through the cold, dark cosmos,
like Hebrews with Moses, but no guarantee

at the end of our journey that we will see
Something
instead of
nothing.
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Edits:
S3L4: like Hebrews in Sinai with no guarantee > like Hebrews with Moses, but no guarantee