Afraid of nothing

The unanswerable question, is:

'What is the meaning of life?'

There are more answers,

Than humans on Earth.

 

More, because no human can answer

On behalf of the Universe

And its countless denizens

For it was the cosmos that birthed us

In its nurseries of stars

And which feeds us and comforts us,

Admonishes us when we misbehave

And teaches us lessons

We all too often ignore

 

But it does not judge

Or demand acquiescence

It does not condemn us

For not worshipping its sun

Or its galaxies, planets and moons

And who are we, to question its purpose.

 

So here we float

On this speck of debris

Quietly circumnavigating

Our infinitesimal corner of this vast abyss

 

And we are afraid

 

Afraid of nothing

Or is it rather

The sheer incomprehensible magnitude of everything?

 

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