Nothingness

Nothingness:

Nothing,

Non-Existence,

Infinite, Eternal black space stretching out

Beyond imagination.

Yet even Nothing is a Something

That Exists.

Even Nothing could create

The Big Bang.

Everywhere we look

Subatomic particles wink and blink

Into Being

Then vanish

To reappear.

We are never stable

Ever changing

In tune

With mathematical equations.

The wonder of it all.

Force, energy, matter

Incredible piles of rock

And clouds of gas.

Supersuns and bottomless black holes.

All indifferent to the fact of their own existence

Until Life appears

Perhaps inevitably

With minds to witness

These incredible happenings

That happen

Until the end of time

If time can end.

Paul Butters