by Shaun Lawton
In the beginning we were perfect
with our skulls the shape of eggs
And we listened to the music of the spheres
we never knew we were dreaming
despite the uncanny appearance of our faces
barely submerged below the surface
of an image trapped on a screen
as if gazing at a host of cameras
that were recording the whole scene
and playing it back in overlapping sequences
until its rendered in 3D
A holographic emergence
with a film it has to play
which is the entire fully recorded
history of the human race
intact in one performance
taking hours to play out
that tells the story of our pregalactic form
expanding like a cell splitting into divisions
congruent with the microchip cluster
each acquires to their own
like a myriad snowflakes and fingerprints
no two were quite alike
this quality of uniqueness
the most common attribute in the galaxy
because it takes its shape from the constant force
it has been from the beginning
a dorsal fin configuration preeminent
to radial symmetry subdivided from the pie
expanding in the recesses of our own mind
the one thing we happen to share
which we don't want to have to admit
even to ourselves, could be the case
but on the face of it our individuality
evaporates along with the rest
of the quantum universe siphoning itself
back and forth both in and out of existence
in a blinking state of awakened beings
cycled in an infinite figure eight mobius strip
the thermodynamic principle upon which
the electromagnetic motors of creation
pass along the triggering current
arriving in their multiplicity of waves
so here we are much further away
from the start than we'd ever imagined before
making it in a world on the verge of boiling over
with accelerating change to the point its quaking
under this pretense we begin thinking
about the stars and their remnants
to which we end up belonging
while the motion picture of our lives
flashes inside our mind in an effortless
gesture disarming the fascist affront
with united civic resistance paving
the way forward for the benefit
of our progression into the distance
only going to show which ends up
being the case doesn't really matter
so much as the belief we hold
well and fixed foremost in mind
