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Beginning in oblivion

 Primeval atom point

 Forces once unified

 Spontaneously tear apart

 Creating space and time

 Inflation for a millionth of a second

 Mass from energy

 As it cools in a new expanse

 Welcome first gravity

 Then strong and weak nuclear

 Electromagnetic might

 By the first second fundamental particles take form

 Nucleosynthesis

 Recombination

 Now there is enough substance

 To be called a void

 All the time in the Universe

 For Building blocks to coalesce

 Until the first spark ignites

 Hydrogen compressed to fusion

 The first sun is born

 A light to shine in the darkness

 And then everywhere at last the sky is on fire

 Circles in circles, background dispersed, defining a ghost of

 the past

 Is this the first or the last or the middle of infinity

 What was meant to be!

 Cyclical regression

 Exists, as observed

 Chaos and imperfection is the seed of existence

 Sown so that it will evolve

 Universe of untold beauty

 Elegant, complete and free