Himiko Poem by Joe Rosochacki

My observation called The Top,
which stated “We gaze into the times before we were”,
Now becomes eclipsed with the site of Himiko,
Himiko was a queen in early Japan, in her day,
There are many stories about what she was and what she did,
Somethings real, folk lore, some things odd.
The discovery of the enigmatic blob,
-some 12.9 billion light years away,
--is called Himiko.
Talking about seeing back in time!
There are many questions about what it is and how it came to be.
The cosmic blob contains the mass of 40 billion suns,
(Don’t forget your 100,000,000,000 SBF,
if you venture to the outer limits of the universe!)
My Gosh, we caught a glimpse in Genesis,
We got a glimpse of the hand of God,
Could we have seen the event horizon where it all began?
Could’ve our Milky Way Galaxy,
-along with millions of others galaxies,
Been Red-Shifted away from the point of origin?
We discovered that which was stated, “Let there be Light”
Hubble knew that there are unknown things in the universe,
Hawking did well explaining them,
But we only at the top soil of the understanding,
While the convection currents of the asthenosphere and dynamics of the crust of earth;
Lay far from view,
We can detect it,
but we not have control of it.
IT lives, shan’t perish.

Move over Himiko,
For last object known as GRB 090423 has taken your place,
It merely beat you by.2 billion light years or so,
As being to oldest object in the universe to date, to be,
“we gaze into the times before we were”, our solar system was,
---was it--were we?

(4-26-09)