Like all great love stories
shadows riddled with sadness
lay in balance
persisting
penetrating
pushing apart
Water freezes
in the cracks of a rock
and eventually
shatters it to pieces

Chaos to order to disorder
Mindful acceptance
Entropy
unbreakable universal law
applying to
the entirety of existence-
and that does not exclude
love

So when stars
go supernova
-Chaos-
Billions of years pass
Planets form
and the atoms
reincarnate
into two human beings
who are deeply
passionately
and madly
in-love-
That is the pinnacle
the highest
state of
-Order-
that can possibly exist
There can be nothing greater
Nothing of more substance

and so begins
-Disorder-
It simply cannot last
That love
has taught you both
everything
you will ever need to know
and it is time
to become
the next reincarnation
of ourselves

That love engrained
is now forever
a part of you
Through years
Through lifetimes
Through millennia

Once upon a time I sought a structure
that decided not to be found.
Perhaps on a map I’d look
                                      but Nothing
would stare back at me as if questioning its own darkness
and speaking as if          submerged.  



And so it remained as though of treasure submerged
within the withering structure
                                                       ­                    of a sunken ship in darkness,
praying to never be found.
                                     Nothing
would do much to reserve a second look.


Yet every so often it would open its eye and look,
submerged
                 in Nothing,
building piece by piece its own little structure
                                             to look
through the darkness.

And when complete, a light drowned the darkness
and gave away the slightest chance to look,
                 but to be found
                                                 in the vanishing darkness
would prove fatal to the structure
         and so it died and returned to Nothing.

I had thought it would all be for nothing,
maybe a chance to wade through the darkness
would wither            away the need for the structure.
                                                 I wondered if it would be of use to look,
even in those places so deep and submerged
    where nothing would be found.

   Or maybe all along it had been found
   and the light had since destroyed the Nothing,    
leaving it to wither away submerged
and drifting to the empty void of darkness.
With a feeling of peace to stop and look,
a gentle glint of light revealed the structure.

But what to do when the structure was found?
Was to hold it for a look worth nothing?
Should something of such darkness be submerged?