That first light

By Itane Vero

Sat, 24 Feb 2024
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When there was no light: could one describe

the darkness? Could you still speak of

 

the night? Of things being pitch black?

 

Was everything just silent, empty, deserted.

 

At the birth of the universe, the beginning

of time, the origin of space, the start of life.

 

How gently everything floated, collided.

 

Like lovers who see each other naked for

the first time, have to figure out how it works.

 

In that slow endlessness, that idle eternity,

it must have seemed like there was nothing

 

going on at all. Everything stayed as dead

as a lost and forgotten declaration of love.

 

Until at a fragile moment, when something

broke away from that standoffish monotony.

 

A very silent movement, a gentle stirring.

 

While all those sleepy protons and electrons

wandered through the complacent cosmos,

 

the first ray of light fluttered past that deathly

unmindful matter - free, unbound, limitless  -

 

thinking with relief: now it's going to be fun.

 

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Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Your picture (attractively written) is of matter coming from nowhere and suddenly light, and suddenly the matter arranging itself. That does seem rather remarkable to assemble into complexity unless guided, and that by an extreme intelligence and ability! But then that is the amazing picture we do have in Genesis! As well as the origin of matter itself and light. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

That great mystery, what was there before the universe, and if the universe did not have a cause, what caused it? Anyway, a lovey poem - thank you.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Nolan on

Very interesting it's like asking, "what colour is a carrot when it is still in the ground?"

"Like lovers who see each other naked for the first time, have to figure out how it works."

Bored already, the kids these days know everything, more than me and you. 

Nolan &