THE ARISING

The What Is began with a Bang,
an explosion beyond comprehension,
and as energy and matter expanded
       into The Nothingness
stars formed and galaxies came to be,
and as stars grew old and burned out
they exploded, dispersing the heavy
     elements they had forged
           in their hot cores
                  into giant clouds
stirred by gravity into new stars
               such as our sun
      and planets like our own,
where out of the dead dust of
      exploded stars
somehow life and consciousness 
          managed to arise,
   and from where we may now
                  look up 
         at the night sky
    at the end of each day,
       and know we’re all children
         of the spiraling Milky Way…