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Reflections Into the Void

& Back to the Light

By Vicki Lawana Trusselli Published 4 months ago Updated 4 months ago 3 min read
Firefly/Copilot

Psyche Intro

There are moments when consciousness folds back on itself and shows us the architecture beneath everything the void, the breath, the first light, the arrival. This piece came from that place. It’s not a story or a memory, but a reflection of the inner cosmos we all carry, the radiance that rises from nothingness and recognizes itself. On a quiet day, the mind opens, and the light speaks.

Repetition creates words of repetitive observation, and a form of repeating omnipotent light.

The thread of light is woven into its breath before the flare of the pulsating seed of light illuminates the world with incipient radiance. Breathe!

The rose and stem are planted into the soil

As we toil

Sowing seeds of life, love, and peace.

Let it be!

The light shines at night

Behind the dark

To create an omnipotent light

To light our way out of the dark.

Reflections Into the Void

The void is not empty.

It is the first mirror.

It holds the shape of everything

before anything has a name.

When I lean into it,

I do not fall.

I return.

The silence is not absence.

It is the breath before the breath,

the place where the word waits

to remember itself.

Light does not arrive.

It awakens.

It rises from within the dark

like a memory of something

I have always been.

I am not separate from the beginning.

I am the beginning remembering itself.

The void is my cradle,

the word is my pulse,

the light is my unfolding.

Firefly

There is no distance between

the first spark

and the one who sees it.

There is only awareness

recognizing its own reflection

and calling it creation.

Reflections Into the Void

From nothingness, a shimmer.

The first spark breathing itself awake.

Stars whisper their fire into being,

the moon gathers her silver,

the sun remembers its gold.

Inside the void, mirrors bloom.

Firefly

Each one holding a fragment

of what I was before I was born

light folding back into itself,

darkness opening like a door.

I am the echo of the first radiance,

the quiet pulse before creation speaks.

Everything rises from this stillness,

and everything returns

to the luminous nothing

that knows my name.

Firefly

Here We Are

From the void, the first shimmer.

From the shimmer, the first light.

From the light, the long unfolding

into stars, into breath, into us.

We are the echo of beginnings,

the quiet flame carried forward.

Born from nothingness, shaped by radiance,

standing here in the soft glow

of everything that ever was.

Here we are

the void remembering itself,

the light recognizing its reflection,

the universe opening its eyes

through ours.

The Void, the Light, and Here We Are

(woven as one continuous creation arc)

From nothingness, a shimmer

the first spark breathing itself awake.

Stars whisper their fire into being,

the moon gathers her silver,

the sun remembers its gold.

Firefly

Inside the void, mirrors bloom,

each one holding a fragment

of what I was before I was born

light folding back into itself,

darkness opening like a door.

From the void, the first shimmer.

From the shimmer, the first light.

From the light, the long unfolding

into stars, into breath, into us.

We are the echo of beginnings,

the quiet flame carried forward.

Born from nothingness, shaped by radiance,

standing here in the soft glow

of everything that ever was.

Here we are

the void remembering itself,

the light recognizing its reflection,

the universe opening its eyes

through ours.

The Last Stanza

Life moves in repetitions

avenues, boulevards, freeways,

forces pulling me backward,

then hurling me forward again.

Arrival, light, void,

arrival, light, void

the rhythm of becoming.

But in the deepest turning

I finally see it:

the moment light appears,

the void dissolves.

There is no emptiness

where illumination lives.

The road continues,

but the darkness has no claim

on the one who carries the spark.

Final Stanza

The thread of light is woven into its own breath,

gathering itself in the hush before becoming

until the flare of the pulsating seed of light

illuminates the world

with incipient radiance.

Breathe.

Firefly/

WRITTEN, CREATED, EDITED BY

Trusselli Art

Outstages Cafe Art Studio

California

copyright 2026

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About the Creator

Vicki Lawana Trusselli

I am 76 year old California mythic storyteller blending lived truth, technology, and sovereign survival into multimedia art.

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    Written by Vicki Lawana Trusselli