Complacency

Search for the truth and it may break you.
You may think you know the risks only to learn
that the greatest one is finding exactly
what you are looking for in its naked power.

Picture God.
Put him or her in your world vision.
Do you see this entity as benevolent,
kind, in a Santa Claus sort of way,
or perhaps as an ameliorative saint
helping people like Mother Theresa?

What if the most godly essence is empty
of human emotion or kindness or concern?
The devil and providence as sides of a coin
which is never flipped for good or evil
but merely spins so fast that faces blur
and the eyes looking out at you see all
with equal disdain yet with an investment,
not in our well being, but in the march
of electrons waving in apparent solidity
guided by quantum certainty of the odds.

Vast streams of disconnect well up
and pour headlong into the cosmos
sending out bits torn to quarks
in an accreting release of heat
toward an infinite dead end
as vibrations fall silent,
cool to millions degree kelvin,
and lose form
to non-positional
reluctance against simply
Being.