Monday, 7 March 2022

Thor Sørheim: 'Til ettertanken'


 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 

When we tried to find out

how the universe was created, it was

already created. Even if new ideas

are to be gratefully received, there is no point

in constructing obvious theories, genuine proofs

or qualified guesses when it is not within

our mandate to create the universe once again. This is

 

an old truth which we cannot comprehend

unless we subject it to thorough scrutiny. A bang,

a cloud of gas, glowing lava, we search for water

and forget that in many other places in the galaxies’

water is mostly known as ice. What came first in the way

of darkness and light, death and life, and whether truth is

to be anchored in the rebellion of youth or in a loose comet

 

on deck remains to be seen in the night sky. Before we try

to set up an equation that can be demonstrated, the question is,

whether we are to search in the outer extremities, log-stacks

and the painful seconds a child is born, and take care

of our fear that all that is beautiful which

occurs will disappear to another planet

that for a long time has been waiting its turn.

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