Fragment Poem by Paul C. Maybury Jr.

The importance of humanity
'Tis little more than vanity
The pride before the fall...

Before...

A twisting in a stream of gas
O so immense the stream
When some star un-named did pass
To begin this solip's dream.

Slowly and more slowly yet
In paces through the infinite
The gentle force threw out its net
And gathered atoms bit by bit.

A stately round then there began
A dance unending under stars
The atoms stepped without a plan
Not yet were Jupiter or Mars.

To slowing atoms were applied
The strictures of the chemic rules,
The dancers partnered in their glide
And whirled about as molecules.

The dancers milled around their goal
The center where the action grew
At darkness' edge an icy shoal
Reflected starlight rawly new.

While all these years flew past by billions
With light hid hind a dusty curtain
Glowing as the dancing millions
Planetized and grew uncertain.

Some the newborn Sun would keep
Close and warm or far and cool.
Some cast out into the deep
Others into orbits school.

Aitch two, aitch two
And sometimes a Hee
Atoms added to the stew
A kind of solar sea.

What happened in the center there
There was no one to see.
And certainly no one to care
What was or was to be.

Long ages passed and kept on passing
Planets grew and kept on growing
Moonlets crashed and kept on crashing
Worlds out-gassed, first sunsets glowing.

What was to come there was no knowing...