Universal Potential (Insp. by H.P. Lovecraft)

Potentially wrong.

Potentially bad…

Potential energies move grains of sand into

Odd patterns following waves on graphene

The beach is not a solar system or

Even a galaxy. The grains are not planets but

Subatomic particles appearing to be

Malleable. Laws can bend. Things can change.

Humanity is distracted; this does not change.

By movie-stars in tabloids and fashion shows,
By cheesy day-time television and on-demand
Pornography. Potentially wrong. Potentially bad...

Infighting between religions

Hate crimes between brothers

Wars between neighbors

No one trusts their doctors

Mothers could kill their children

Republics can rise and crumble
Planets revolve unaware and
Over the brink man shall tumble

Returning to the dust through which we trudge
The unceremonious death of an egotistical species
On a tiny rock, on an outer arm of a back-wood galaxy
Man dies, Earth dies, stars blink out and God never existed

Vast millions of planets continue revolving continue revolving
Einstein knows matter is not created or destroyed.
The cosmos are unchanged but no living being witnesses
The next big bang which perpetuates existence

The spark of life ignites in any dry forest over time
Energy cycles and begins where it once ended
Kinetic energy becomes potential
Potentially wrong. Potentially Bad.