“We live in the flicker –
May it last as long as
the old Earth keeps rolling!
But darkness was here yesterday.” ¹
Particles accelerating;
particles colliding.
Creating a system, a star,
a momentary twinkle
in a flash before
singularity death.
The spinless boson lives
without change or charge.
The Spinless boson welcomed
inflation and the universe
stretched its legs for its first
sunrise stroll.
The spinless boson
tipped its hat as
the universe walked
its Welshie around the block
that first morning
after the expansion began.
As gases, atoms,
the mass of everything
exploded at the speed of light,
the spinless boson
knew the score.
Quantum acceleration
until the cooling.
Entropic endings
and the slowing of
all things.
¹ Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 3rd Ed. Robert Kimbrough, ed. W. W. Norton and Company, 1988. P. 9.