In The Grand Scheme

View of Universe Captured by Hubble Space Telescope: NASA

In The Grand Scheme

Limitless, beyond the imaginative scope
of our understanding, it is a bleak, dark
and threatening place, this universe of
which we represent a mere spark of existence.
It is and we are all part of nature's elaborate
unknowable design whose purpose is her
enduring affair, not divulged to us. In nature's
plan we theorize a spontaneous combustion
igniting from nothingness out of an immense
void. From nothing arose everything. On
Earth as it is in Heaven. Where darkness
prevails and spiralling nebulous chemicals
and minerals become something, elusive
and unknown. The void remains yet is
no longer without content. The universe
unfolds and expands, its presence a vast
continuum of timeless infinity. This is a
construct of terrible beauty and precision
sublime and yet desolate, perhaps a game
that nature has devised where matter is
invariably consumed, inexorably and with
a grim finality that may or may not serve
to please its maker and we have little
option but to hope we will be forgotten.