We are in the backyard
With our children at night
Looking at the stars:
“The light of the Orion Nebula
Began its journey to us
At the time of the Roman Empire.”
Time expands, now we live
Fourteen billion years after
The beginning of time.
Space widens and grows
Larger, the space arrow
Follows time’s arrow.
Energy, which is heat,
Decreases, it’s much colder
Now in the Universe,
“Even on a hot day like this,”
You say. But it’s hot
Inside the nebulae–
Those “beds of young stars”
That are cooling down
As they grow into adulthood.