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It was She in the singularity, who showed Her face at the beginning of time, who in the muted cacophonous explosion danced the guapacha.<\/p>\n

A pullulating symbiotic relationship formed, as the string section played a riotous symphony of discordant mayhem, that was eloquent silence.<\/p>\n

Defeated by the fervid furnace of creation, Her intendment became fruitless. She could do no more than give a long stretched wave and enjoy the moratorium.<\/p>\n

She was fettered in the dark ages, yet waited with serenity, assured of no senescence. She waited till the primordial soup had texture and taste.<\/p>\n

Time would come, when She could give birth.<\/p>\n

She made no sound, yet, was heard and obeyed. She: The Creator, was always obeyed. It was time. Time to draw them out of the dark ages and into the light.<\/p>\n

They beckoned her calling and one became two. From clutch to cluster. Multitude to myriad. The few became the countless. There was no solitude.<\/p>\n

Her arms wrapped around them but this was no mothers caress. She was the Goddess Of Creation. The Universal Animator. The Permeate Immortal.<\/p>\n

Her ubiquitous touch gained more purchase as numbers increased. The unwavering grip of the Omnipresence became undisputable fact.<\/p>\n

She squeezed until molten passion ignited the very core of existence. Spinning and dancing at the very heart. So hot that fusion became imminent.<\/p>\n

A star was born, Her first child.<\/p>\n

She made no sound nor showed Her face yet gave birth to countless children. She was the mother of the stars, the planets and their orbiting sons.<\/p>\n

Yet She that could give life, could take life away. And when the inevitable demise of Her children crossed the horizon She would commit the unspeakable crime. Filicide.<\/p>\n

Her outstretched arms would still be around them as She crushed them and watched them die. The inevitability of nature. The futility of intervention.<\/p>\n

Her torrid and tempestuous history is written in the celestial heavens for all to see. Her wave is not a greeting but a statement of Her elysian power.<\/p>\n

Her child has died but may live again.<\/p>\n

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A computer-generated image of a Higgs interaction (Photo Credit: Lucas Taylor \/ CERN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a contribution from HSEDocs<\/a>, who were\u00a0inspired by LIGOs recent discovery of gravitational waves, with the poem personifying\u00a0gravity as a Goddess, who falls in love with matter (Higgs Boson particle), creates children (the stars and planets), then eventually commits filicide.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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A spoken word video of this piece can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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