Our Place in the Cosmos

  Moon shine so bright  this late July night Call me a moon man call me a night owl call me a man on the prowl So energized by the moon,  can't go to  bed anytime soon For we've tracked each other for many a night to find each other this perfect summer night, 4.5 billion years and one day in the making So let us share queries and stories in your anointed light, on this appointed night How many journeys have you made on your elliptical path? Yes indeed,  many moons have passed... What have you seen? What have you heard?  In all the eras and ages as Earth turns its pages... the first microbes in the oceans twinkling in your light perhaps in tidal pools, cauldrons of life? the appearance of plants, the greening of our planet the emergence of animals from water to land the whir, the buzz of insects above the mass extinction of the Great Dying maybe you couldn't see through the volcanic haze,  only to gaze? Did you lose hope for earth mother? the Chicxulub Impactor, the dinosaur