I Believe Before Everything Began, Before Time Poem by Bob Blackwell

The page is blank, pen is poised.
Before time, before things happen,
there was nothing, save for a void,
a nothingness, a emptiness, no life
or consciousness, a space unfilled.

No word is written, no thoughts,
nothing is recorded, no story,
before history, before time began,
a nonentity of everything, of all.

No moon, no stars, no planets,
no galaxies, no universe, no sun.
No milky way, no solar flares,
no comets, just one black hole.

A sphere of spirit, an energy,
a lifeforce, that knew no limit;
a supreme dormant power
filled the void, it had no name,
no presence, it is not there.

All is still, silence is the rule,
no tiny cogs to measure time,
no sun, no shadows, no sundial,
just eternal time, one moment
is suspended in no time at all.

An emptiness that settled, had no
divisions, no separate ways, it is
unmoving, it had no limits, it’s spread
boundless, its reach was to infinity.

Still in eternal time, a spark ignites
the dormant spirit, it then expands,
void explodes, life’s energy free to
spread its consciousness unlimited,
life’s current to all corners of infinity.

A word is written, history opens,
start of continuous moving time.
Life’s energy makes stars, planets
other worlds, our universe, our sun,
our moon, our earth, our milky way.

This same spirit created earth with
its mountains, hills, oceans, seas,
forests, deserts, rolling plains,
icecaps, and lovely valley streams.

Creatures great and small are made,
lifes cascade of energy spreads, to all,
its current a continuous moving flow
of consciousness for all new life made.

Human life evolves, ability to think
given, our thoughts remembered,
feelings and emotions given, our
intelligence, our knowledge improves.

All this made possible by life’s spirit
which flows unbroken through all that
it has created and all that it will create.
It is the current of life’s creation the
same eternal spirit flows through all.

We all come from that same
moment of eternal time that
held the spark that set free the
dormant spirit in the empty void,
to let consciousness go free.

This moment contains all time,
all history that is gone, all thoughts
all deeds, all loves lost and gained,
all achievements, victories, losses,
our hopes, our dreams, our lives.

Today this same life spirit flows,
it is our own true selves, and has
an eternal energy that never dies.
Lifes spirit binds, its flow joins us
to everything, to all, we are One.
Together we make up one large Soul.
We are life, we are part of life’s flow.

You ask was supreme dormant power
that had no name, God? You can give
it that name, if you feel it makes it right,
for it was and is the greatest power we
know, for it shares its spirit with all,
so we and everything can have a life.

This means however we all must care for,
love, cherish and help everything we see.
Because you see, what we see is me
and you, and all me’s and you’s, and
everything, make up lifes spirit, our soul.

If we all work together to heal our
world, we will succeed, for our unity
of purpose, our Oneness, will ensure we
are the greatest power that’s ever been!

Together we can work miracles, like
that the supreme power you called God.