Thus Bliss To Just Exist [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

My wish is to tell how marvellous this is - when a
modern physicist doing stem cell research claims
consciousness existed before the physical world
came into being - therewith corroborating tenets

Of Spiritualism - it is a huge break-through; when
scientists realise awareness precedes everything
our five senses interpret, and our senses actually
create the reality we see - at last they've arrived

But I can't formulate it beautifully, can't derive my
arguments or present its case logically, can't write
as poetry; all I'll manage tonight is an essay since
I can't shorten long lines to the barest essentials

Thus creating something long-lasting, suffice it to
say there's no such thing as being lifeless, matter
is energy all aware which chooses being over non-
being and mere existence is a joy in itself, not in

Need of justification or for any other purpose - life
has only one goal: to experience all facets of itself
in all probabilities and possibilities explored one by
one, nothing excluded - life is a riot of discovery

And a gaudy feast where everything it is possible
to imagine is experienced before it is accepted or
rejected; life consists of sensations and rhythms -
thus it is bliss to just exist as consciousness