THE BEGINNING OF TIME -- Chapter 2

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The Creation of the Universe 
or the Big Bang

o one knows 
how long 
this tiny seed 
lay still - 
but all a once, 
like a pot of water 
suddenly boiling, 
this seed exploded 
into a trillion 
tree branches. 
And everywhere 
there was dust 
from this seed.

After a while 
the dust 
clumped together, 
like steam 
on a cool window pane 
turning into drops of water. 

And then 
out of the darkness 
a light started to glow - 
the first star 
had been born 
from out of the dust. 

And then there were 
more stars 
and still more, 
and soon trillions 
of stars - 
stars everywhere filling the sky.