Let Them Fail

Let Them Fail
by Gideon Burton

Let's engineer the nebulae, compress

the early elements toward a mass

of sparking hydrogen, this stellar mess

persuade into a string of pearls to last

as long as Adam's atoms trace their way

along fresh generations -- who will choose

their own elliptic orbits, how they'll prey

upon the fertile days, find ways to lose

their way, to weight the swallowed gravities

surpassing Jupiters in poisoned mass.

And let them sound the darker cavities,

cosmographies confounding present past.

     We've known the primal chaos lost in cold.

     We'll see Him light new suns from those grown old.

Photo: flickr - NASA Goddard Photo and Video