Real And Unreal Poem by Praveen Kumar in Celestial Glow

What is truly real, darkness or light?
Is it void or space, real in essence?
How timeless and time compare as real?
What is real, ignorance or knowledge?
What counts as real, unreal or real?

Nobody knows, who started, and when,
What did constitute the earliest world –
Darkness, void, timeless, ignorance;
Has unreal nothingness preceded all of it?
Whence dimensions impinged on unreal?

Who how fathered the real dimensions
In inviolable unreal pervading everything?
Reality that transcends unreal nothingness
And darkness, void, timeless, ignorance –
Fathered dimensions and lighted creations!

Darkness is real, light creates that real,
Void is real; space makes that real, real,
Timeless is real while time, intelligible,
Ignorance is wick that knowledge lights up,
And unreal is shadow lurking ‘neath real.

Nothingness is frame, reality builds on it,
Darkness by itself illumines to eternal light,
Void is eternal bowl; space fills to its brim,
Timeless, an impulse, finds direction in time,
Ignorance breathes life while knowledge lights it.

Unreality does exist, reality too exists,
Reality hides in it unreality as its sport,
Both complement each to create Universe;
While awakens unreal to reality’s spark,
All worlds light up as glorious realities.