Before Ideas Poem by Barry Middleton

before there was a brain to name it
blackness hovered in a silent void

before there was a soul to feel it
love waited in the potentiality of dust

before any star grew to critical mass
the light drifted in random photons

before imagined gods intruded
one ruling law waited for notice

before there was a song to sing
music floated on quantum waves

time's unabated vibration proceeded
with no clock to measure its pulse

till every beat was set in the stone
for a brief bequest of resonance