In the beginning of our time,
We looked up at the sky at night,
And asked the most important question
Of them all:
“Why?”
The Universe was silent, waiting, as
These first stirrings of our Wonder
Crept into its shadows.
And then it asked itself
What is this star-stuff with a mind?
This creature
That of all that Is
Was doubly touched by God —
This much of raw Creation,
That much of Mystery.
It felt the wonder grow
As we had found our voice—
For now the Universe could speak.
It asked itself again:
Why alone of all Creation
Does this humankind exist
And ask such questions
Now of me?
Why alone of all Creation
Does it seek to find the secret paths
Hidden in the natural labyrinth
Of time and place and circumstance?
Why does it matter?
Why do they need to know?
And then the Universe understood,
And in its depths it whispered silently:
Go forth and find the answers
That you seek.
I’ll wait here, all around you,
And come to know you as you come to know Yourselves.
I am the Universe that God created.
I need to know all I can learn—
I’ll come to know myself
By the searching of your mind,
By the patterns that you make
By the wonders you invent.
I’ll come to know myself because
I’ll see it through your eyes,
And feel it through your hands,
And hear it through your ears,
And taste it with your tongues,
And smell its wild bouquets
Through you,
Until I am so filled with all the
Magic of your senses
And the mystery and mastery of your minds
That then at last we’ll come to know.
What we were meant to be.
Re-create me, humankind.
We need to know.
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