out of nothingness

reaching toward order

deep, deep within reality
order permeates the very substance of creation,
all that came to be,
all that has changed,
and all that will change,

out of nothingness came all that we can come to know,

and, within it all, there is a driving impetus in the universe
toward structure, toward meaning,

some of us reach to know that impetus toward order,
and away from its lack,
and feel it to be that of God,
we like to feel something akin to us
but written much larger than we can really fathom,

others avoid such personalizing
and choose machine over person as the model,
evolution the product of randomness upon randomness
that somehow self-organizes,
for structure beats non-structure
as the fittest finds a way the less fit can’t,

consider within literature and cinema
the times when we imagine the machine to develop self-awareness,
the mechanistic becomes personal,

I choose to imbue what I see reaching toward order
to be that of God, with whom I want to be part of the best
wanting to manifest sure.

by Henry Walker
July 28, ’11