Pulse

Pulse

It is astounding
It is appalling
how much good energy
how much spiritual communication
how much human insight
how much art
how much truth
how much laughter and tears
will be lost
in the cataclysmic spasms
of our dying civilization

but we are not unique
we are historic copycats
following the lost peoples
before us
just as accomplished
just as civilized
whose overreach did them in
greedy and arrogant
the fatal flaws
and today only dusty
artifacts in museums
show us they were here

so it goes
in our vast universe
we rise and pass
and rise and pass again
in a cosmic dance
to a zero sum

(you have to provide
your own meaning)