Looking back at the past in a present light...
in the beginning there was eternal darkness... nothing
strange that this abyss of nothingness germinates the start of something
from an infinite vacancy births a miniscule point
quite quizzical that time & space came to exist in this mystical void
at first the universe fits within a single co-ordinate
the laws of physics along with other natural laws & limits born in it
from heat & density, energy crafts matter's invention
& inflation doubles its size ninety times in fractions of a second
a few minutes after birth the universe is a cosmic soup
fogged by plasma trapping subatomic particles zooming on the loose
balloons in darkness too for hundreds of thousands of years
until the temperature cooled down enough for fog surroundings to clear
rivers of photons flow freely & stream through space
shaping images, tracing growth from its own extremely youthful state
in that instant all future history establishes presence
past inceptions of the present forever etched to last in the heavens
matter congeals & forms as masses attract with gravity
electromagnetic spectra reveal swarms of stars packed into galaxies
rich, luminious shine inscribing movement through time
an illusion designed to be seen as static through the crudeness of eyes
such beautiful skies as dusk darkens, sparkled with glitter
which part of the picture to start with, way too many stars to consider
parts of space seemingly vacant & empty, hellish & hostile
are found to contain spectral remains of dead stars... relics and fossils
size of the looking-glass decides the distance back we see
flashes of supernova blasts, galactic collisions & cataclysmic catastrophes
lenses in space placed to evade atmospheric haze & flicker
snap shots from when the fog faded, taking the universe's baby picture
we've spent centuries crafting these many maps of the sky
like frames in a movie our eyes are viewing the heavy traffic of time
cosmic history encoded in its ever-glowing magic at night
translated through the lens of a telescope as it focuses the gathering light
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