WINDOWS TO THE WORDS
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SUNRISE/SUNSET
I've been a wee bit cosmic (if that's possible!)
SUNBIRTH/SUNDEATH
Imagine a cloud of dust
Within nothingness.
Imagine that you are in it.
For you are.
Everything that is you is there,
Already.
*
Gravity clumps the dust
Into a mass.
It becomes hot.
It becomes hotter.
It becomes unimaginably hot.
Yet you are within that heat.
Already.
*
Within the cloud
Fusion.
A star.
A sun.
*
You were not part of the sun.
You whirled away
Into the ether
To become a planet.
Don't you remember?
You were there
Already.
*
With the birth of the sun
Came all we know as
Life.
And you were in it from the start.
You are eternal.
*
And when you die
You will still be part
Of the miracle.
Your star-stuff will remain
*
And when, in five billion years or so,
The sun also dies
The stuff of you
Will implode,
Explode,
Alter beyond recognition.
*
But it will be there,
Ready for the next stage.
*
Already.
*
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7 comments:
Lovely food for thought today. Thanks ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
How well you have captured eternity...
Great use of the word 'already'. You've captured it here.
Hi, I was looking for your SkyWatch but couldn´t find it :)
Have a nice week!
Many moons ago (64 years ago to be exact) I visited my first Planetarium. The show ended with the way our planet might cease to exist; rotating off its axis and getting so far from the sun that an ice age killed everything or, conversely, getting so near the sun that it burned up. I think there was another way, but my memory is very selective now and I only remember the dramatic way they illustrated these possibilities.
The knowledge the astronomers had then was minute compared to what they have subsequently learned about the universe. It's truly awesome.
I love how the tension builds in this poem. Just like the tension from the birth of the sun! And, nice that we are part, and will always be a part, of the great cosmos.
You've solved a universal mystery...
With that one word "Already"..!!!
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