Ghost Fire God

I'm all out of
inspirational things
to write poems about
and I really
really
really
hate writing about love

so I'll tell you about the universe
and how the galaxies mingle and merge
and how stars explode
out of nothing
but gas
and disappear
into nothing
but fire

and I'll tell you all about
the way everything fits together
in the long run
like planets,
and why we have them
and all about the speed of light
and the laws of physics

I'll explain
how, as a video game,
our world is made of data
00110001
and
00110000
and how we see upside down
because we are machines
we are organisms
we are, in essence,
each a universe in ourselves

and still we are
less important
than the dust
from the stars
and the end

and we hate ourselves for it, always