Curiosity Killed the Cat

 Our Descent

We humans are Holobionts,

hosts to trillions of species of organisms

of which we are but a small part, and that 

together, symbiotically, we’re

doing our best to survive on a highly toxic

planet located in the outlying spiral arms, 

the Orion-Cygnus arm to be exact, of a spiral galaxy 

known as the Milky Way, some 26000 light years from

the galaxy’s centre, and that the Milky Way is but one of 

an infinite number of galaxies, and stars, in the universe.

Knowing this makes one feel rather small,

so very, very, tiny and unimportant, 

as well as make one wonder… 

why humanity is so besought to determine 

if we are the only life form in the universe when,

we are already a conglomerate of life, 

which is a conglomerate of organisms?

Some say that it’s human nature to be curious,

but, didn’t curiosity kill he cat, and look

where curiosity has led humanity

to a state of chaos, 

Dantes world no less.