"Abyss has opened, full of stars" - Lomonosov Abyss has opened full of stars. Pluto to Venus, Moon to Mars - We see the universal force Charting the cosmos from its source. Abyss of stars; in stars, abyss - From depths to heights - from ague to bliss - The life is manifest in all - In every part, key to the whole - In whole, key to every part. The mind to soul, the breath to heart - All of life's pieces intertwined And through the synthesis refined. The void in me, the stars in you - The will to be, the sight that's true - Will intermingle and imbue The world with light of every hue, That will commingle into white And frame and sanctify the night Shining throughout the day with sun - And in the night, when course is run, Return again to their source And be the parcels. And of course Inside each star, its own piece Of wisdom, ecstasy and bliss. Abyss has opened, full of stars. Come with me darling, let us parse The code contained within the whole Into the knowledge of the soul. We are the stars; we are the void - The burning passion is employed To light the path, to guide the way And let the cosmic forces play Within the whole, as holes within Are by the interplay worn thin And disappear in the night To reabsorb into the light. Galactic wisdom knows it all; Spacetime collapsed in a black hole As world around it rushes by And man asks what, and how, and why; The incongruity within - The passions torn, the mind worn thin - Reflect the daylight and the night In endless love; in endless fight. Through all abysses in the space - Through all that in abysses plays - Through quasars, galaxies, red shift - Through truth, invention and deceit - Through spirit's longing and heart's pain - Through reasoned words and speech insane - Through passion, terror and delight - Through day and twilight and the night - In all that lives; in all that's here In ocean, island, atmosphere In jungle, desert, tundra, steppe In every place on which I step - In atom cracked, its core undone - In colors blending into one - In forces crumbling on themselves - In the commingling of the selves - In space collapsed and rearranged - In mind extended and deranged - In lyre of life, in drum of death - In Keats, Neruda, Rumi, Plath - In senses shattered to the core Till Present touches Evermore - In every minute flung ajar - I be abyss; you be the star. https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambatpoetry/