Flickering ruby red gas
Of yesterday’s yesterdays,
It asks us how well we score
On a Belief in Noneness
Scale. One. Beyond all surface
Appearances, everything
Is fundamentally none.
Two. Although a great many
Seemingly separate things
Seem to exist, they are all
Dissolving into nothing.
Three. At reality’s most
Basic level, everything
Is none. Four. Separation
Among individual
Things is also illusion,
And, thus, everything is none.
Five. Everything is composed
Of the same basic absence,
Whether it’s thought of as void,
Gravity, death, whatever.
Six. The same basic absence
Permeates everything. Fin.
How high you score on this scale
Predicts your identity,
Belief in noneness being
Linked to feeling more distant
To connections and aspects
Of the distal human world,
Yet, paradoxically, close
To those with whom one is close!
The faintest, reddest, youngest,
Furthest galaxy gives us
A slight, smudged smile. There you go.
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