Poor Rock

We’re specks on a speck,
But is Earth greater
Than life, or is life

Greater than the Earth?
For now, the former
Seems to be truer.

Just look at what you
Can do to Earth’s lives,
Driving hordes extinct,

While all your power
Focused together
Couldn’t budge Earth’s spin.

But if life is out
There on other specks
Where life is like life

Here, same tendencies—
Hunger, predation,
Parasitism,

Waves of arms races,
Cooperations,
Extinction events—

Then life is greater
And more terrible
Than Earth, poor planet.