My Universe

By Lance Jencks

The universe is not heartless:

millions of hearts reside within.

Not only cold, this universe,

but warmth by a fire.

Tell me the universe does not think,

I point to a brain.

Tell me it doesn't care-

I say, some of us do.

O do not exclude what is part of the All

from its essence.

Don't see the lifeless

and say nothing lives.

You are part of the universe too:

you're one of its features.

About the author
Lance Jencks has been writing poetry for fifty years. In the 1970s he earned an MFA in Playwriting and a PhD in Contemporary Theatre. In the 1980s he published his verse-based roman á clef, "The Wisdom of Southern California," then toured that region with a one-man show of the same name. Lance has been an advertising copywriter, a stock-and-bond broker, and the guy who hooks your car to the chain at the car wash. He lives today in Newport Beach, California, where he was recently featured in the epic bodysurfing movie "Dirty Old Wedge" on Amazon.