Nihilism

“Cosmogenesis” by Pablo Saborio

 

will come time

for the earth to expire

unless

it has already died

and existence

experience

life as I live it

is merely persistence

of memory

willful illusion

metaphysical halo

of molecules

caught in miasma

the breathless remains

of the atmosphere

loath to acknowledge

the lifeless cold

motionless planet below

death as corpus

and concept

significant only

to something or

someone alive

the great self-repaired

cosmos could

hardly care less

Elementals

“The Big Bang” by Bhawana Jotshi

nothing finishes

least of all life

what exists is forever

the matter of memory

no less a substance

than hard bone or stone

no such thing

as atomical finity

ever was always will be

even though it may

undergo change

as conceived

by a mindful

deliberate cosmos

whose thoughts

interchange

between order and chaos

but never forget

every element

born in the bang

that established its

outreaching realm