Black Hole Poem by Stephen Esric Loomes

Black Hole



At that moment, which
Wasn't at all
Pure energy erupted through
A particular point which became
A particular place from which
It all got so big, racing through
The multidirectional fishing net
Of sub-atomic bosons' infinite fibre
Making matter, so said Professor Higgs
Now confirmed at the Hadron collider
So the 'big bang' was really the other side
Of a black hole in the universe of dark matter
Through which endless trillions of tons
Of dark matter drawn by gravity to collide
Through this growing universe of of atoms
Exploding forever as it created our universe
And in turn creating its own black holes
Feeding back into the dark matter, obverse
Time, space and time brought into being
In micro seconds cascading into aeons still growing
Endless dimensions so vast and multiplex
So that human conception is set bowing
With the knowledge of the universe flowing
In a way which is so complex
That it dwarves all knowing
An explosion of energy raced from the singularity
Captured by a multi-directional net of Higgs' bosons
Reducing energy into matter the fabric of our plurality
Almost 14 billion years before
Edwin Hubble peered back in time
At Pasadena on Mt. Wilson
Looking at the spectrum of light
At the galaxies he saw
Accelerating the expansion
Shining from the past
Through the Californian night
He theorised at last
That the galaxies were moving fast
Away from each other expanding space
Creating the world which we call our place
Thirteen billion years to assemble life
From lightning striking the primordial soup
Assembling desoxyribonucliec acid into
A biological loop which could copy itself
Then the cleaving of a sexual divide
Now male and female replication
For the intertwining of DNA
Leaving behind genetic cloning
Fomenting molecular diversification
Again and again inevitably leading to
Fish in the oceans and plants on the shores
Until one such creature began to explore
The land and its wonders so that animals evolved
And our first ancestors, the reptiles, multiplied
And were able to remain and so developed a cortex
Which was the first block of our brain
In each of us the reptilian thinking resides
So theorised MacLean in his writing speculatively
That our species-typical instinctual ways
Came from the reptilian complex of the triune
The source of aggression, dominance, territoriality
And from this comes our ritual displays
Till the reptiles evolved and our ancestors
The great apes developed the second layer
Septum, amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus
And cingulated cortex, the limbic system
Allowing motivation and emotion defining us
So our thinking, feeding, reproduction
And the parental rhythm.
Lead to the development of human culture
With a mutation creating Mitochondrial Eve
The mother of all mothers from millennia back
And into the future
She passed on the neo-mammalian structure
Overlying the reptilian and limbic organic computer
Allowing speech and language, abstraction and perception
With the advent through her, of the cerebral forebrain
All of us now, evolving our ways on this 'Goldilocks' planet
Where it's not too hot, and not too cold
Water, oceans and an atmosphere conducive to inhabit
So we, for hundreds of thousands of years have evolved
But without memoried culture and learning involved
Which we in our parenting strive to impart
Our children would be like 'Wild Jim'
100 thousand years apart
From what culture and learning give each child
From the start
What we can now do with our human mind.
But with abstract thought came the thought
Of why I am I here and what is the purpose
A conception of being alone in the Universe
And the belief that one's existence could all be for nought
And in the fertile valley of doubt came the convincing supposers
Who spread their ideas that offered the answer
Giving the world religion which grows like a cancer
Giving comfort to some but at a price so great
It turns people against each other and justifies hate.
We pass on not just the planet but a world of the mind
At first dominance produced
The most successful kind
The reptilian instinct with mammalian stealth
Gave the new offspring power and wealth
But now we live by a new set of rules
We use and live by technology very few understand
No longer trading things of use like clothing or food
Long ago losing barter which has departed for good
Now we must have money for sustenance and land
Reduced to a life dictated by fools
Controlling resources using other humans as tools
So all is subordinate to this ideology
Money is the key to health and prosperity.
Can this be changed to a world more benign
Of course it can change and it needn't be divine
First we must realise that we are alone in space
There is no kindly extraterrestrial race
If you want to have God, then there is only one
And it is the same from each Religion
So however you worship and choose to profess
You must understand your god is the same one
As the rest
Next your acquisitions, which you hoard like a snake
Must be shared with the world, so each gets a take
Your flashing serpentine attacks must be stilled by your reason
Nothing justifies killing or harming any person
And long before the advent of religion
It was known that to be true
That you should do unto others
As you would have them do by you
I am not a mystic, I don't accept all that fuss
Superstition is like religion
It does nothing for us
But one thing I reckon you can count on as true
Is nothing is so dense or merciful
As the veil hiding the future from you
Each of us can make the future what the future will be
We need to care for each other
In this outpost of Eternity.