The Big Wheel

Inward, outward; it's all relative.

THE BIG WHEEL

Stop! Think!

IN INFINITY EVERYTHING REDUCES TO NOTHING!

The heavens a mist, your God a blip,

all existence a freak of light and shadow.

Nothing is punier than arrogance.

This is a clockwork universe. Yet it has no Mainspring,

measures only instantaneity in perpetuity.

Providence or circumstance--can all this radiance, receding,

simply vanish into nought…

The big wheel turns the lesser wheels;

the lesser wheels, the stars.

The stars roll round those starving hearts

their greater wheels have wrought.

Galaxies fling their bristles wide,

spattering flame on a canvas boundless, artless,

imponderable. Within these wheels a prodigy quests,

spinning in pitch and timelessness,

forever falling round a warm mother sun.

My world is staggeringly beautiful.

In evening she murmurs, post-mourning she sings.

Her heart is all creation, her hearth a planet wide.

Each tremor of birthing, each strumming of wings,

aches to the rhythms of season and tide: leaves follow sun,

winds scatter rain. Streams rush to bed, to the lullaby of sea.

You blood or brine or fluke or fate--

Is this one sweet fire just one more torch in passing.

The heavens yawn above us, the clockwork shrinks below…

in molecules are…galaxies becoming…

greater, lesser, up and down: all things bend to math and mind.

Yet,

in Infinity,

Everything adds up to--

NOTHING!

(Chimeras breed in peepholes,

where tiny wheels are wrought.

These wee wheels spin their smaller wheels;

the smaller wheels, the jots.

The jots chum from the mocking depths,

and vanish into…nought).

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Out Of The Whirl

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Out Of The Whirl: Sanders, Ron: 9798671245547: Amazon.com: Books

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Author's Note

Be sure to check out Faces and The Fartian Chronicles.
Thanks.
Ron.