~ HYDROGEN CRUCIBLE
...OPEN YOUR ARMS AND TAKE IT ALL IN!
Why do the nations rage,
and the people meditate so foolishly?
--Psalm 2:1
Stranded on the shore of my inventiveness,
I'm feeling the strain.
Have I peaked my life,
From now on descending?
Unless I expand
I may fall in on myself.
All that is created
And is therefore individual
Has a beginning and an end,
But there is no universal
Beginning and end.
My universe may fall in on itself,
The red shift change to a blue.
All universes may be like
An expanding and contracting heart,
With the spores of humanity
Growing in the cool spaces
Between stars
Then withering in the autumn collapse;
Or they may expand eternally
A phoenix infinity or
An infinite expansion.
Suns must grow in heat and
Finally consume
Their planetary systems.
Look out of the window:
Everything you see
Is frozen fire in transit
Between fire and fire.
Cities, equations,
Lovers, landscapes:
All are hurtling towards
The hydrogen crucible.
If a cosmos is infinite,
It has no end.
If it has no end,
There can be no end
It is serving.
Its only end must lie
In its means.
It exists in order to exist.
Only one process allows
All conscious beings
To have equal importance:
An infinite one.
If there were any end
To which evolution was tending,
Then you and I would be
Slaves of a pharaoh,
A builder of pyramids.
But if there is no end,
And only in an infinite universe
Can there be no end,
Then you, from whatever world or
Age you come, And I
Are equal.
For both of us the slope
Is the same,
And reaches as far ahead
And as far behind.
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