But We Had Music - Maria Popova

[Larry Robinson]


But We Had Music 


Right this minute

across time zones and opinions

people are

making plans

making meals

making promises and poems

while

at the center of our galaxy

a black hole with the mass of

four billion suns

screams its open-mouth kiss

      of oblivion.

Someday it will swallow

Euclid’s postulates and the Goldberg Variations,

swallow calculus and Leaves of Grass.

I know this.

And still

when the constellation of starlings

flickers across the evening sky,

it is       enough

to stand here

for an irrevocable minute

      agape with wonder.

It is      eternity. 

                   - Maria Popova



"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
    - Wendell Berry