all the possibilities of time and space
embroiled in a microscopic race

pushing minutae round the track
going for the small one
the big bang again
and why not?

conjecture and obduracy,
mules with data
any answer is better than none
any consequence best dealt with later.
and why not?
a radioactive weapon against prophecy and fealty
maybe against science too,
and why not, really?

and what if they’ve got it wrong, and they don’t have a clue
faith reigns supreme, tangles the world in a web, a prison,
both in religion and in secularism

at a tiny micro-particle level,
people feel scared,
feel unprepared
to be so small,
its more than was feared,
if we really are all the same after all

everything came, came from nothing
returns one day, to nothing again
why not?