(Comet landings).
An obelisk and a stone
a tiny island on the Nile,
the need for understanding
and clarity of times long gone,
unfathomable, undecipherable.
Then we learn
and keep on learning
knowledge, sense, distance, time
but still the hazy cloak
and that ever-present question
where are we from?
Now men think in googled numbers
four and a half billion years
four billion miles
two billion euros
one billion heartbeats
Philae and Rosetta
all spent for 67p.
© Graham Sherwood 11/2014
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