Supernova

Q: What is the difference between
me and a supernova?
A: I can think.


And sometimes it is
too deeply and too
often for some who
know me.  Yet I can
no more hold myself
in than the star can keep
from expanding, from
exploding, really.
The star has lived longer than all of us put
together but it does not
comment on its existence, nor mine,
nor yours.  It merely keeps
shining, brilliant, a nuclear
fire far far away hurting
no one, destroying nobody's
life on earth, but making
men's minds busy with
wonder and mystery and
my mind busy with
words.