all things

I met a new kind of peace
in cerulean dreams and rainbow dawns
in willow tree swings and home-baked pies
in all the snow-things
Down the celestial slopes
It rode its lightways down to earth
and whispered within the cacophony
told me I am a part of it all
that Time, for now, moves with me
that my essence comprises the matter
not vice versa
I'd been hiding in dreams and sunsets
swinging from fancy to fancy
fearing the falling sky
hating how far away the heavens go What folly!
Absurdity!
Profanity!
Profundity...

no, I've found my peace
it's right here
in knowing I'm a part of all things


Here is the true folly
That no matter how much there is to say
About what makes meaning
What brings joy
What is peace
I can refute it all
With a simple thought
That adding it all up
Is the same as negation
That all equals zero
That most recent of digits
As though a secret deliberately hidden
By the mind of man
For nearly all its time
Zero is the sum total
Of action, of thought, of living and suffering and dying
Of progeny, of legacy
Of righteousness and temerity
Zero is the sum total
Of all confined to finity
A proof? Yes, here it is.
Suppose a Creator
Who is Infinity
Sets about seeding an enclosed space
Bounded by dimensions
Set within Time
When Infinity looks into a bounded space
There is not even a point to see
When It considers Its action
It simultaneously considers all actions
Resulting in an infinitesimal, read: impossibly small
Consideration for an Infinite mind
Of the entirety of our universe
Things bounded in time are made up
Of infinitesimals
Things unbounded are not
Things unbounded are One
There are no parts or pieces
And so we see that not only is One
Infinitely greater than zero
But if that gap were to be traversed
It could only be by the One
The Infinite
And that gap could be crossed quite simply
But once the event horizon of time's black hole
Had been breached, the Infinite character was lost
Thus came the sacrifice of the Infinite
Who humanely recognized at the tender earth-age of 33
That all was lost for all
Unless we ourselves would participate
In that sacrifice
But how...
How could it be done?