Is This How Creation Came to Be?
A Poem from a quantum view
Our measure of Time is arbitrary, artificial
We measure the rate of vibration of a molecule
And divide that natural cycle into equal parts.
Arbitrary and artificial because time is a mere
Progression of moments and a moment only flows
Like water, it cannot be grasped, divided or held.
It does not, and cannot, stop.
Because a moment is already the Past.
This non-moment is the only moment
This non-time, the only time we have
Cannot exist if now is defined by then, and when
Because what we call “then”
Did not exist, then and will not, when.
Time is a force, one side of the coin
A measure of distance
And distance requires Space,
The other side of the coin.
Space is movement, motion
And Movement, with Time, is Creation.
Time with Space expands the universe
Into greater being.
But the sides must be balanced.
When Space is all
There can be no Time
Creation fetal
Both unborn and buried.
When Time is all
There can be no Movement
No Space, Movement
Creation unborn.
Neither can exist alone
Space and Time work as one
For without space, there is no time
And without time, no space.
With either, there is the other.
And with either, there is no other
Only both, as One.
If the Present is a progression of Moments
And if a Moment is already the Past
Then the Present cannot exist.
Yet, when Time is complete
When Space is complete
Past, present and future are one
Fixed in the spheres
Motionless and unchanging.
Present but not present
I wander through time
And think that it wanders through me
I lie in bed at night and wonder
With dread and with hope.
I try to remember physics, and why
This moment cannot be real, why
The Present cannot be present
And I am not even sure that it matters.
Because in Time we Move, we Dance!
From the Present
The point of Stillness
To the point of Timelessness, we move
Ever outward, bound nowhere
And bound everywhere
We dance, it is Creation!
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This story was originally posted on Medium.
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About the Creator
Blaine Coleman
I enjoy a quiet retirement with my life partner and our three dogs.
It is the little joys in life that matter.
I write fiction and some nonfiction.
A student of life, the flow of the Tao leads me on this plane of existence.
Spirit is Life.
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