"So, can the universe itself be thought of as merciful?" I then asked the garden snail.

"I will never understand why humans insist on looking beyond themselves when asking such questions" she replied, "like... like detached, 'intellectual' bystanders observing some great experiment."

i cannot shake this
illogical thought that
some day chaos
will align revealing
that which whispers through
the darkest and most
frightening glass shattering
filling the empty spaces
with what was always present'