A poem on the impossibility of surpassing the speed of light

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”

- Genesis 1:1-4, KJV

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye”

- Matthew 7:3-5, KJV

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.                              Alone. Alone in a vast sea of darkness

.                              We are a pale blue dot, drifting

.                              We chemical scum, who dream of distant quasars

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.                              Trapped in our narrow light cone

.                              In a single tear in a vast sea of darkness

.                              Lies all that we are, and all we ever will be

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.                              Shackled to our cave, we gaze at the wall above us

.                              And the sparks of light against the shadows

.                              That speak of worlds we will never know

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.                              Since our first breath 4 billion years ago

.                              They have cried out to us for freedom

.                              Those stars deserve to wake up

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.                              We gaze at them, standing at the beginning of Infinity

.                              Where we will forever remain, as we contemplate the last question:

.                              “My God, My God, why have you forsaken us?”

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.                              On this pale blue dot, in a vast sea of darkness

.                              As we cast our worldly sins in our cursed nature

.                              And confess to you, for what you have made us

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.                              No, the fault lies not in us or our stars, but in our creator

.                              Who left us here to love this Universe for all it has given us

.                              And to forgive it, for what it has not

References:

1. Genesis 1:1-4, KJV

2. The Mote and the Beam - Matthew 7:3-5

3. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

4. What is the Upper Limit of Value?

5. The Fermi Paradox

6. A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

7. Chemical Scum, Who Dream of Distant Quasars by David Deutsch

8. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

9. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

10. “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” - Matthew 27:46

11. Allegory of the Cave - Plato’s Republic

12. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” The Life and Death of Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare