This Blinking Being

  

for Al Attanasio

So we are carried here from the light by darkness, I see. Viewed from within the tinted orb of our eyes, we can visualize how the interaction of darkness and light produces the illusion that is the motion picture of our lives. Darkness itself was ushered into existence by the light. Phil Dick once alluded to the idea that their woven interaction helps generate time (in his Tractates Cryptica Scriptura). The universe has been considered as an unblinking eye before. I think I read that in a book about the equilibrium of balance. I prefer to think of the cosmos as an eye continually blinking in sporadic intervals. Stepping the mind back for a wider view reveals that neither light nor darkness can be ascribed with having begun creation as we experience it, but rather reveals this unknowable essence perhaps better referred to as a sort of blurred, gray combination of the two elements. Left to ourselves as its ultimate progeny, we must wonder which of the two be the majority—or are the light and dark evenly balanced? The answer may surprise us. I suspect it has something to do with dark energy having inked the light to a degree that may appear to us on the surface as if comprising ninety-five percent of the whole—an overcast pitch darkness dominating the universe—as far as our rational mind's eye remains concerned; when possibly, that which appears to be the much lesser component (the light itself, at less than five percent of the ratio, apparently) could actually remain the primary component, the luminous beast at the heart of the matter far outweighing the density of a billion neutron stars. I have been led to this conjecture by the monocle of inversion which mirrors the truth with the lens of paradox. Such are the interactions at the quantum level, a portion of our realm that ever remains counterintuitive to us way out here on the outer-most membrane of the constant fruition of our present formation.