The Space Between

                   The Space Between        We’d marvel should it prove some mind devised Planets, bright stars and complex galaxies: Placing them in relationships so fine That they, (from ancient times through to this day), Stayed recognisable upon the skies As astrological phenomena Balanced amidst unstable cosmic flux.        Nor […]

                   The Space Between

 

     We’d marvel should it prove some mind devised

Planets, bright stars and complex galaxies:

Placing them in relationships so fine

That they, (from ancient times through to this day),

Stayed recognisable upon the skies

As astrological phenomena

Balanced amidst unstable cosmic flux.

 

     Nor would we wonder less to learn that mind —

Which could invent, (with such fine art and wealth

Of science far surpassing human sense),

These splendid holographic signs that guide

Our startled eyes towards infinity —

Also conceived the pregnant space between:

That vast, intangible, invisible

Effect of nothingness which generates

All known existence in its ambience?.

 

     The beauties of these marvels we can see

Evoke delight, but the enormities

Of inlaid space compel profoundest awe!.

How could this inexplicable great void,

(Patently lethal in its entropies),

Be source of all materiality

And nursery of living sentience

Evolving in space-time’s strange crucuble?.

     How can we solve this seeming-paradox,

When human intellects can’t comprehend

The real dimensions of our universe,

Nor understand their own significance

Within the contradictions space suggests?.

 

     Space poses questions which we can’t ignore:

So we must try to pierce its mysteries,

(Seeking the basic laws secreted there),

To crack the coded meanings they contain.

     Nor should we be afraid to meet a mind –

If such exists outwith the universe –

That with deep diligence and maven care

Has guarded our frail being from such potent force

As would annihilate us, if not held in pause!.

Author: J. A. Bosworth

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