Reflections Into the Void
& Back to the Light

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

WRITTEN, CREATED, EDITED BY
Trusselli Art
Outstages Cafe Art Studio
California
copyright 2026
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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