Have you ever
Truly, contemplated
The Void?
Have you?
Really?
Ever?
It's blackness
surrounds us
In all directions
Wrapped in its
Utter empty
Dark embrace
And we spiral down
within it
Like a lost soul
In a deep
Gravity well.
Around a yellow
Many-blessed star
Which itself
Circles the
Frigid centre
Of a Galaxy
A wide, Milky way
Saggittarian armed
Which itself
Is moving
Circling away
from a point
with its
Peers contained in
The Virgo cluster
Away, and away.
One day to unite
Violently
With Andromenda
2 million years
Of light away
Herself
In a collision
So vast,
the heavens will
Tremble
And worlds
Will spin
Off their axis'
And yet, this
Is as nothing
When compared
To the void.
The nothingness
The totality
Alpha - Omega
It watches us
Mutely
Waiting
Our turn
To return
It watches all its
Galactic children
As they
Run away
Gravity wise
Forever, eternally
From the point
At which they
Formed/born
Heat, energy
Perfect symmetry
Broken and
Shattered
Resulting
In the Void
That point
Is where the Void began
It's career of
Darkness and
Silence
Its airless cold presence
Embraces all
And ever since
Its......................
Nothingness has been
Increasing
Relentless
Light year upon
Light year
Yes, it is truth
Nothingness
Is the true nature
Of this Universe
God's creation
That we think
So mundane
The one we feel
Is packed with life,
Woods, hills, tree
Small towns
Pieces of paper
But we live in a special place
Places that are something
Are the exception
Not the rule
Which is no thing
We are so rare,
like a single teardrop
In a pacific ocean of
Nothing
Beyond here
Up there
Down there
Across there
It seems filled to
Brim with stars
Twinkle with promise
But be warned
All the stars and
Galaxies (red and blue)
Would not fill
A millionth of a
Percentile
Of the universal void.
It swallows them
All, entirely
Gently staring at us
Forever
From its dark
Black eye
Think on that
And then
Think again
And again
You cannot
Contain it
No thing
Can
The stars
And all the planets
Nebuli and holes
black and dark
Are as nothing
Human beings
Thought
Ephemeral
Taken whole
Compared to the real
Stuff of Universe
Which is void.
Think upon it
As much as you can
On a cloudness night
Stare into the sky
And realize
You are truly
looking into
Eternity
A void so utterly empty
That all things
that are, or will be
Mean no thing
To it, its deep
black heart
And complete
Perfect
emptiness
If you do not
Swoon with fear
And tremble
With excitement
At the reality of
This fact
Of your
true existence
And of
Your private
privililge
To glimpse
At this no thing
From a tiny
blue/white
rock-made ball
Of a home
Trapped in nothing
Then you have not
Truly
Contemplated
The reality of
The Void.........
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 5:58 AM UTC
Have you ever
Truly, contemplated
The Void?
Have you?
Really?
Ever?
It's blackness
surrounds us
In all directions
Wrapped in its
Utter empty
Dark embrace
And we spiral down
within it
Like a lost soul
In a deep
Gravity well.
Around a yellow
Many-blessed star
Which itself
Circles the
Frigid centre
Of a Galaxy
A wide, Milky way
Saggittarian armed
Which itself
Is moving
Circling away
from a point
with its
Peers contained in
The Virgo cluster
Away, and away.
One day to unite
Violently
With Andromenda
2 million years
Of light away
Herself
In a collision
So vast,
the heavens will
Tremble
And worlds
Will spin
Off their axis'
And yet, this
Is as nothing
When compared
To the void.
The nothingness
The totality
Alpha - Omega
It watches us
Mutely
Waiting
Our turn
To return
It watches all its
Galactic children
As they
Run away
Gravity wise
Forever, eternally
From the point
At which they
Formed/born
Heat, energy
Perfect symmetry
Broken and
Shattered
Resulting
In the Void
That point
Is where the Void began
It's career of
Darkness and
Silence
Its airless cold presence
Embraces all
And ever since
Its......................
Nothingness has been
Increasing
Relentless
Light year upon
Light year
Yes, it is truth
Nothingness
Is the true nature
Of this Universe
God's creation
That we think
So mundane
The one we feel
Is packed with life,
Woods, hills, tree
Small towns
Pieces of paper
But we live in a special place
Places that are something
Are the exception
Not the rule
Which is no thing
We are so rare,
like a single teardrop
In a pacific ocean of
Nothing
Beyond here
Up there
Down there
Across there
It seems filled to
Brim with stars
Twinkle with promise
But be warned
All the stars and
Galaxies (red and blue)
Would not fill
A millionth of a
Percentile
Of the universal void.
It swallows them
All, entirely
Gently staring at us
Forever
From its dark
Black eye
Think on that
And then
Think again
And again
You cannot
Contain it
No thing
Can
The stars
And all the planets
Nebuli and holes
black and dark
Are as nothing
Human beings
Thought
Ephemeral
Taken whole
Compared to the real
Stuff of Universe
Which is void.
Think upon it
As much as you can
On a cloudness night
Stare into the sky
And realize
You are truly
looking into
Eternity
A void so utterly empty
That all things
that are, or will be
Mean no thing
To it, its deep
black heart
And complete
Perfect
emptiness
If you do not
Swoon with fear
And tremble
With excitement
At the reality of
This fact
Of your
true existence
And of
Your private
privililge
To glimpse
At this no thing
From a tiny
blue/white
rock-made ball
Of a home
Trapped in nothing
Then you have not
Truly
Contemplated
The reality of
The Void.........
Written on a dark night staring toward Orion, in a draft form
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