Adam's Humanity

Allow that the least atom may be separated from all else:

this was my position.

Darkness, or rather nothingness

in every direction,

and every second identical.

As my fears that I must be asleep, drugged, dead or worse

shrank like stars of the morning

I knew their fate to be like mine

and emptiness, darkness or nothingness

was not really so bad!

It was now I saw as if with eyes

a bright ribbon (grant me a whim: I will withhold the colour)

as vivid as any I might see or imagine

if I could approach I would. I could, I did.

I found my loneliness assuaged, and I spoke

"Dear pretty little thing

you who were never alive can never die

you come to me now as all there is

I am astonished by your beauty"

it seemed as if I had found a newborn kitten

and I spoke as I would then "Don't you worry

sweet little thing, Adam is here

tell me what you want and I will bring it

yes I will" Gladly I would have

taken the delicate strand with me

 to the heart of the black hole I had decided

I must be spiralling into

but then

"Someone after me, innocent as any,

may follow this way frightened and despondant,

let them also be uplifted and encouraged"

I said my charming goodbye and watched the light

float away, fading, shrinking, to nothingness.