The Universe Began

The universe began,

a single point, containing everything

necessary to become the universe

with planets and stars, our own earth and us,

expanding outward and cooling as it grew

to form what we are 13 billion years later,

evolving as it went, a long process;

or the wave of a hand and in six days

forming it all, day and night and the animals

and plants, and man and woman, mated,

resting, finally, on the seventh day,

creation a tiring business;

but we go to war over all these origins, one

against all the other theories and who is responsible,

as if one and one only can be right and the others,

wrong, a battle of beliefs, like any war, proving nothing.

But the HOW is far less important than NOW,

for here we are, regardless of the plans,

all the planning that got us here, orderly,

logically, well-reasoned, a purpose achieved,

a world in balance, dynamic and constantly changing,

a universe still seeking perfection; now, how

to move beyond ourselves, to maintain this order

and balance, seeking still perfection, seeking still ourselves,

open to the universe and creation’s becoming.