Confidence

Monday follows Sunday

Night tagging sunset

Birth unsure and death untimely

framed in the dial of timekeeping

Take any month, any day

and you are certain

of the hours it contains

and what follows when

Suspended in the middle of nowhere,

where middle itself is uncertain

Unyielding darkness girting

beyond the reaches of earth's orbiting

Ambling from nothing to nothing,

for no reason apparent

Stumbling upon curiosity

and tripping over knowing

Certitude of the puny

can beat cosmos

at its infinity

and emptiness.