We learn from an early age how the world works,
the earth is spinning, that’s what we’re told.
Sun and moon, a fixed design,
we accept it all without questioning why.
They say the earth is moving fast through space,
thousands of kilometers every hour in place.
Around the sun, through the galaxy,
yet no one feels that motion happening to you or me.
If we’re moving this fast, why don’t we feel a thing?
We feel a train, a car, every fall, every swing.
No vibration, no force, no sign at all,
of the earth’s daily journey through the cosmic sprawl.
We see images of the earth from far away,
perfectly round, that’s how they’re displayed.
But those images are built from data and code,
not direct photographs, or so we’re told.
Gravity keeps the oceans in place,
that’s how the explanation goes, case by case.
But birds still fly and balloons rise,
which makes you ask how that force really applies.
If we’re moving this fast, why don’t we feel a thing?
We feel a train, a car, every fall, every swing.
No vibration, no force, no sign at all,
of the earth’s daily journey through the cosmic sprawl.
At the poles there’s more ice than expected to find,
signs of an event that changed all life.
They say almost everything once disappeared,
ninety-nine percent gone — that number sounds severe.
Antarctica belongs to no nation or land,
secured by a treaty agreed worldwide by hand.
Why that place, and why so controlled?
Those are questions that never seem fully told.
Then I heard of people with a different view,
saying the earth doesn’t move and isn’t round too.
I laughed at first, didn’t take it as real,
but I chose to look closer, staying sceptical still.
Maybe not everything we’ve learned is complete,
maybe asking questions is how we move our feet.
I’m not saying I know what the truth will be,
but doubt might be where understanding begins for me.
Keep looking, keep thinking, don’t shut ideas down,
change begins when old certainties loosen their ground.
This is not an answer, just a place to start,
to explore for yourself what shapes our world and our part.
