Splendor
Exploding outwards now, the universe
Is ever an expanding tidal wave,
A circle of catastrophe, a curse.
It is an ever-living deathly grave
For all that it gives birth to, hexing life
Produced in its calamities. It sears
Its breath across unbounded spaces, rife
With its creative destruction. Hot spheres
It snuffs out cold-heartedly. Long ago,
So long ago (such vastnesses cannot
Be seen or dreamed), this dying, surging glow
Began from one intensely total dot.
..What went before it seemed would never cease,
….Immeasurable void, one ancient peace.