what is man that Thou are mindful of him?

evaporative cooling skims the fleet
and leaves the sluggards with the lame and old
the faster atoms carry away heat
and what remain must huddle in the cold
like Maxwell's demon with his little gate
but lacking an intelligence or will
the Second Law's implacable as Fate
inexorably, Order slides downhill.
Despite the stars, the universe is dark
on average, just a few kelvin degrees
our fate's as dreary as it might seem stark
at equilibrium, we're doomed to freeze
all virtue's just provisional 'til then
the cosmos is indifferent to men