Today I Do Not Mind

Today I do not mind That our universe may be only one of many Or that it is expected to heat die in trillions of years Or that all of us Are small intervals in a story With an impossibly large number of years both before and after us Today I am here in my own small everyday life and worries Nothing cosmic will depress me today I am happily in the here-and-now of my own small years Happy to think That if the family record applies in my case That I have give or take a few -ten years left I have time to write the masterpiece I have had fifty years to prove I can't write And going on doing whatever it is I do now Nothing great -nothing very significant Just living Ten more years perhaps Of my own small existence Until I do what so many friends have already done Leave this world To the regret Of family and friends only.