A Word to the Inanimate

Life is the event horizon,
Since, if you’re inside it, you’re doomed.

If you’re outside, you have a chance,
But a chance at what? you may ask.

Well, a chance at avoiding life.
How good of a chance will vary,

Of course, by your proximity to life.
Earth’s surface is very risky.

There’s hardly a molecule left
Hasn’t yet been consumed and doomed

By life and via life to death.
However, the farther you get

From that awful black hole of Earth,
The better, too, your chances get.