Whole worlds exist.

Whole worlds exist.

Despite their rarity

It is a commonplace idea

Another leap of faith

A step into the future

Even with a secondary

Grasp of popular physics

I am at a loss

To explain the

Absence of dark energy.

The meaning of a god particle

Or the systemic failure

Of mutual support

For the vulnerable

In a time of need

A subtle beneficence

A collective responsibility.

There is nothing to prevent

A wayward thinker

From falling

Between the lines

Of demarcation.

Do you see me

Lost in the dust

At the bottom of a page

Stumbling through a footnote

Finding little comfort in the crunch

Of dried old leaves

So many humans

Rarely cited

Among the bones

Of another sorry tale.

Am I ghosted

Another prisoner of conscience

Locked within the walls

Of my own devising

Dividing time

Between delusion

And imagination

Discovering

Isolation

Is a crowd

Until the curtain is drawn

And it is all there is.