Finished in April 2018

Before

By Zac Langridge

Before the Universe, before the Creation

Before the Big Bang, the conjuring of the Solar System

The moulding of the Milky Way, the cluttering of the stars

The fire of the Sun, and the ice of Pluto

The life on Earth, and the death on Venus

Before all that

There was nothing

Nothing was there

Nothing existed

A black hole, an empty void

An echoing space, billions of kilometers wide

Everything we know now, never there

Non-existent

No one, nobody, nothing, not anything

But that’s not true

It can’t be true, can it?

Because if there really was nothing

Then there must have been something

Because there was nothing

In our minds, we all imagine blackness

Before the Big Bang

But if that’s true, then there was blackness then

So you can’t say there was nothing back then

Because there was blackness

That’s something, surely

If there really was a black void

Then there was a black void

There were two things existent, blackness and emptiness

If there was a swirling mass of matter, all building to explode

Then there was matter, and motion, and building tension

There must have been something there to create all this

There must have been something to create the Universe

But before the Big Bang

There was apparently nothing

Which is something

What was there Before?

I often stop and wonder