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?