The Birth of the Universe

In the beginning, there were two lovers

locked in eternal embrace

and they dreamed of stars and super novas

alone in the dark of space.

The male pulled away in order to see

his lover in full view,

but as he gazed upon her beauty,

the winds of darkness blew,

and death with his pure lack of mercy

struck with deadly haste,

stealing the male’s ever-living soul,

leaving his body to waste.

The universal mother,

struck with maddening grief,

gave birth to all that is

a universe beyond belief

with planets, stars, comets, suns,

expanding out away,

with gods and spirits, angels and demons,

and lords of night and day.

All the dreams she and her lover dreamed

became real and new,

as there she stayed, an unmoving center

from which everything grew,

and as the mother watched with sorrow

as her children drifted out,

always moving further from her,

closer to death and doubt,

her sadness, guilt, grief and suffering

encompassed everything

with death and darkness surrounding all

ever looming, ever waiting.