Stars and their Remnants

 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