Japan and the Indifference of Heaven

Taking it as a scientific given that we emanate from the stars, without getting into earthquake pornography, this is a post Tsunami Japan thought and it is a WH Auden poem called the

 'More Loving One’ and for me it really is about the indifference of ‘Heaven’.

Looking up at the stars,






I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total darkness sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

Source  Christopher Hitchens on The Indifference of Heaven.