Apphehension by Stan Long

_____Consider
the inner eye that part of us
still attached
to the genesis of being
_____first
an apprehension a not quite
seeing a not quite believing
_____more
an expectation
awaiting
confirmation
until
the mind
made consciousness
its reality
the corporeal eye
the eye of the cosmos
_____this
ability
a nascent quality of matter
how else explain
the origin of life the Big Bang
_____all
things sprung from it
galaxies planets out of the
_____nothing-
ness life evolved
an eye appeared looked on
to see what
_____happened


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