WHAAATTT??
A drama,
A comedy,
A tragedy,
Full of bad actors
Who don’t know their parts,
Ad libbing
Their way
Through the roles.
A childhood,
A career,
A death,
While pretending to understand
Thinking it’s reality.
Opher – 11.12.2024
There are no rules.
There are no reasons.
We cannot create a narrative.
We are going nowhere.
It’s just a 4000 week holiday from eternity.
We call it life.
It has no purpose, no meaning; it just is.
Just Once
Just once –
In an instance of amazing, unbelievable, impossibility,
Circumstances conspired.
Just once –
A snowball rolling downhill gathering pace,
Growing constantly.
Just once –
A planetary steamroller taking all before it,
Ever more complex.
Just once –
A cosmic vacuum cleaner sucking everything in,
Imbuing the lifeless with life.
Just once –
Culminating in a spectrum of great wonder
In which I am but a simple ray.
Opher – 4.10.2024
I remain constantly in awe of life, of the wonderful spectrum of organisms on this planet, their incredible forms and immense beauty. I am in awe of how it all came about. I remain in awe of the wonder of consciousness.
After a lifetime contemplating the spectacular inception of life and workings of the human mind I remain as much in awe as ever.
Religious people use words like miracles to describe what they cannot understand. They replace one inexplicable wonder with something even more incredible and impossible. That’s the human mind for you. Things we can’t explain become mystical and we create religions from them.
I remain suspended in awe and wonder.
Life is my religion. I worship it. A sunset is my religion. I soak it in. Answers can blow in a wind of wonder. There are no answers; just wonder.
All life is sacred. All nature wondrous. Who needs more? I am part of something splendid, a small ray in a vast lightshow.
A Streak Of Lightnin’
There was a streak of lightning in the Goldilocks zone
It worked its magic on a lump of stone.
Nature’s fury.
A burst of UV.
Sufficient for creation.
A dose of hard radiation.
An amazing feat.
With lots of heat.
What time has taught her
With plenty of water.
A chemical reaction that resembles magic
Fermenting for billions of years.
Creating something so absolutely fantastic
To fill the eyes with wondrous tears.
Metamorphosing by the trillion
To finally dream under the sun.
Mammalian, virus and reptilian
Ever evolving from whence it begun.
Rising out of the mud
Spawning skin, bone, leaf and blood.
Electricity still coursing through the gel
Of wondrous life in every cell.
That one spark in the Goldilocks zone
Set fire to a zillion clones.
Firing up brains as with the great Shakespeare
Leaving me in awe as I sit here.
Opher – 9.5.2021
Billions of years ago, in one place on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere, a flash of electricity gave rise to life.
To me that is much more amazing than all the religious explanations I have ever heard – much more fantastic, much more awesome – and much, much, much more likely.
From that one instant of unique chemistry all life on this planet evolved.
That is much more stupendous that anything in the bible, koran and bhagavad gita put together. Fantastic that it is it is still far more believable than all the gods created out of the imagination of men.
The result of that one reaction billions of years ago is writing this.
Incredible.