Invariably Variable

Given you’ve not yet found the ends,
Never touched the bottom of things,
Could it be scale’s irrelevant?

Seriously, why be so wowed
By either vast or minuscule,
At least when viewed compared to you—

The enormous lifespans of stars,
The nanoseconds of proteins—
When the same sorts of patterns show?

Big spirals spin like little ones.
The great gravitational waves
Have crests and troughs like ditch ripples,

Infinitely divisible,
Or as good as, infinitely
Extensible at every scale.

It’s sort of likably boring,
And every point’s in the middle,
All equally grand and little.