(Poem)
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. 1
Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot
‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust.
And man is tiny — helpless! 2
Nineteen Eighty-Four
All we are is dust in the wind
Kansas
Dust In The Wind
Planet Earth, my home, my place
A capricious anomaly in the sea of space
Planet Earth, are you just
Floating by, a cloud of dust
A minor globe, about to bust
A piece of metal bound to rust
A speck of matter in a mindless void
A lonely spaceship, a large asteroid
Cold as a rock without a hue
Held together with a bit of glue
Something tells me this isn’t true…
The things I’ve learned from a broken mirror
How a face can change when a heart knows fear
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Cecilia and the Satellite
Nothin’ comes from talkers but sound
We can talk all we want to
But the world still goes around and round
Prince / Tevin Campbell
Round and Round
Feeling kinda tilted
and I’m pouring out the truth,
just fading out these talkers
‘cause now all I want is you.
Foster the People
Sit Next To Me
Notes & References
Songs:
Kansas – Dust In the Wind
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Cecilia and the Satellite
Prince / Tevin Campbell – Round and Round
Foster the People – Sit Next To Me
Michael Jackson – Planet Earth (Poem)
Is the truth really there?
Or is it right under our hair?
For all we know it’s been there all the time.
Prince / Tevin Campbell
Round and Round