The Universe and the Atom (created and posted 9/30/08)

The Universe and the Atom

One day I was a universe, blissful and triumphant with the resonance of sound and the reflection of starlight. I spoke and all spoke back to me, echoing my sentiments and my wonder. I set order and flexed and flowed with the order of other things, as all were one.

The next I was an atom, infinitely small and insecure within a vast expanse of seeming nothingness. I spoke uncertainty, and uncertainty answered, neither confirming nor denying my place in the universe that replaced me. I now lived by rules with which I was unfamiliar and things belonging to other orders and hierarchies.

My core caved in a little and I choked and shrank.