The Glass Slide Empire

Worlds Within Worlds

Beneath the hum of fluorescent light,

A scientist bends through the laboratory night,

Eyes pressed close to a microscope lens,

Where the world of the small finally begins.

On a glass slide, a civilization thrives,

Bioluminescent streets pulse with tiny lives,

Crystal towers rise from protein and cell,

A microscopic world with stories to tell.

Organic architecture, amber and teal,

A universe hidden, impossibly real,

Fluid rivers carry vessels of light,

Unseen by the scientist lost in the night.

Two worlds divided by one fragile glass,

The macro stands still while the micro worlds pass,

A discovery waiting right under his nose,

The greatest of wonders the naked eye never knows.

Laboratory shadows, cold, clinical, blue,

While below in the slide, warm colors breakthrough,

Science and wonder collide in this place,

A civilization thriving in infinite space.