Seeking The Source

Anciently arcane? How about a

time before time existed? As for

place, and being, none at all. 

None, as in nothing, blankly absent

existence. The teeming presence

of atoms and gases, chemicals, ice 

and dust that powerful telescopes

visualize and present that we are

not alone in the Universe have

taken the place of the void that

once was. So this is the ultimate

mystery: What propelled existence

into being, what force beyond the

insipid imagination of mere

humankind initiated existence

out of total absence, to produce

an expanding Universe, its

diversity of forms and its yawning

endless timelessness of being?