What’s the Matter?
What’s the matter, do you ask?
I’ll tell you right away.
It’s everything around you, as you work, or sleep, or play.
A chair is matter, a table, too, and so is a rock or tree.
A cloud, a star, a blade of grass, a raindrop, a bumblebee.
The earth is matter, so is the sea, and the sky is matter, too.
(Of course what matters most of all is the matter that is you!)
There’s matter almost everywhere, except in one special place— the
vast, black, lonely emptiness, that we call outer space.
Tom McGowen
