WHAT, ALL?

WHAT ALL?

There is matter

there is energy

there is light

there is gravity

there are waves

there are particles

and those are just

the surface.

There is mind,

there is heart

there is soul

there is spirit

there is love.

For quantum's 

sake, and

deeper still

are muons,

and mesons,

electrons

and quarks

Physicists say

all these things

are evidence that

the universe itself

is conscious, a

conscious cosmos.

What?

I will defer to

Churchill who said

“short words are best,

and old words,

when short,

are best of all.”

so...

              God!

Amen.

Reviews

[Michael Sun Bear]

I like it, A LOT! Great poem. I consider Paramahansa Yogananda one of my spiritual teachers, even though he died when I was a few months old. I once read a book written by one of his students who said if he asked Yogananda a serious question, he would be given an answer as detailed as required, but Yogananda would typically add a finishing remark: But remember, we are all just a dream of God.

[John the Baptist]

Very succinct and unexpected ending here. Perhaps a single religious term encapsulates all the scientific vocabulary. Unfortunately, God is probably the most loaded word in the English language. Because when you say it, scores of sects and philosophies claim only they know the correct definition.

[DISTURBED]

That's so beautiful!
It made me cry...
You are amazing. You have such energy and all the things that make up all that stuff you're talking about, Volcano, you are the universe.
With all that you know...you sum it up to one word. God.
You know, even my father was too macho to write a poem and give God credit.
A real man doesn't worry about that.
My heart, my heart.

[W. Barrett Munn]

Vol, this is a marvelous construction of a poem. Well done.

[Vol]

Thank you, man. It s a subject that I often think about.
Vol