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When Space Was Big

By Samantha Terrell

When we are small
And space is big,
And there are so many unknowns
We can't hope to know them all;

When there are brighter stars
In a bigger sky
And the distant future
Is really, truly, very far,

There is a hope, too—
A motivation to keep on
Living past the moment,
To do something unique and new

Before time gets shorter, and spaces smaller,
And the world's pains
Grow bigger,
And the stars, dimmer;

Before the irony of life sets
In, and we learn to get lost in smallness,
Forgetting the world that
Once gave us its vastness.