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Carl Sagan Cosmos Song

from Impossible Bodies by Faith Eliott

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Carl Sagan Cosmos Song


Today I couldn’t leave my bed because I felt so anxious
I watched 6 hours in a row of Carl Sagan's ‘Cosmos’
and I guess it helps a little bit to put things in perspective
and think about how the universe is so complex and infinite.

So I made myself a poster of geologic time
and I put it on my wall so I could try to memorise
the names of all the eons, eras, periods and epochs
like Hadean, Oligocene, Jurassic and Cretaceous

So when I’m overwhelmed or too absorbed by my own ego,
I’ll remember that the earth is over 4 billion years old
and in that time it’s seen so many drastic transformations
from meteor bombardment to five mass extinctions.

And every organism that’s ever lived and died
has had to fight tirelessly in it’s endeavour to survive
each minute protozoa and mutant camelid
fungus as tall as skyscrapers and color changing squid

So if I was a tetrapod on some late Devonian shore
would I cry my little tears of slime for lack of something more
than legs to walk and eyes to see, would I dream of wings or antlers?
and spend my days hating myself for not evolving faster?

An eternity is all very well
but you still haven’t called me in three months now...
and maybe when this all is said and done
I could transcend the laws of space and time
'til we're just drops in a blameless ocean.
and I would see it all so clear in flawless high definition!
the swirling shapes and contours of this whole situation!
the struggles and the triumphs would all make perfect sense,
and I would stand back and wonder at it’s beauty from a distance

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from Impossible Bodies, released April 19, 2019

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