Saturday, September 29, 2018                                                        Dreadful Joy

Darkness





Darkness carries us.

Dark energy bears the entire universe into a void of ever-accelerating expansion.

Dark matter holds our ignorance in the gravitational grip of a mysterious voyager - starless shrouds enclosing galaxies - that comprise 21% of matter in the cosmos.

Dark the self we think we are: dark our origins and the struggle to be that opens behind our faces into darkness breathing us and building our dreams.

In this creation that began as pure light at t-zero, the first moment of the Big Bang, what then is darkness? Cosmologists declare that darkness began with inflation.

For a fraction of a second, from t-zero to t-minus 37 second (0 with a decimal point followed by thirty-seven zeroes and then a 1), only light existed. Then, mysteriously, space expanded faster than light.

From t-minus 36 to t-minus 32, darkness unfolded the vastness of the cosmic vacuum into which creation has been expanding since.

Darkness emerged from light. With inflation’s exponential expansion of space in the early universe, light birthed darkness. Awake to this truth, our age witnesses the end of the immemorial battle of light and darkness.

Darkness carried light into congealed quarks, atoms, stars, galaxies, and planets that evolved the birth-hold of life. Now, in the gathered mindfulness peering through our eyes, darkness stands beside her mother’s body.

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Great ideas in this poem, is the mothers body alive?
Theres a beautiful discordian creation myth about the void this jogged out of my memory I hunted it down and found it here
https://hyperdiscordia.church/cosmogony.html
I think you would appreciate it
Thanks and best regards
Matt Sinclair

November 4, 2018 at 4:09 AM  
Blogger A. A. Attanasio said...

"Is the Mother's body alive?" Yes, She is all the matter (fermions) in the universe - out of which we have emerged! Mother - Matter - Mutter!

Thanks, Matt, for the link to the creation myth about the void - a verbally imaginative dramatization of the Vedantic truth: Form and Formlessness are the same.

November 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM  

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