The 5 Ages of the Universe
There is a book called ‘The 5 Ages of the Universe”
Here is my poetic take on it.
The 5 Ages of the Universe
by: Elizabeth Mathews
We thought long and hard
About the birth of the universe
And with a flash, a Bang
A clattering of trumpets
And pots and pans
Chattering, giggles
The door was opened
To the bright light from the emptiness
The Primordial soup
Decided which ways to drip
Which glasses to fill
How to order the plates at the table
And with song and number
Void and appetite
She spooned herself out, feeding the space
Her voice cajoled the Age of Stars
The Stelliferous
Whose breath exhaled the spores of life
To seed and branch the membranes of time
Filling the halls with glowing movement
The infinite value of things realized
The magnificent host to time
And time, outlived us all
To the age of Degenerate matter
The fading whisper, the empty seats
Silently creeping across the cloth
To tuck in her children forever
In her graveyard, in her evening
In her late hour, in her winding down
We thought long and hard
About how death looks like sleep from far away
And how long extinction lasts
Under the fading fabric of our table
The last shadows whine and scurry
The glowing eyes of ghosts linger
Bringing in the Age of Black Holes
The last bastions of form in space
These grand sinks, like kitchen drains
Will too, one day, evaporate
Falling into themselves
And our memories of her will be shredded
Like the threads that once bound the edges of her skirt
Then, whatever you can imagine of the Dark
Whatever deep dream you can summon
As a solute for the infinite
Can only make the dissolution more
Unfathomable
The Dark door beneath the floorboards
Will creak and give way
To unknowable dust
Where every particle decays and the source
of everything
Completes its cycle through entropy
All things joined back as one in a cold soup
Left to sit on the stove
In the ageless beyond
At the End of the universe
Everything is soup.
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