Twilight Hike to Andromeda
I was born 9/10ths of a century ago
in a Bible Belt Eden on a planet where
the sun, moon and stars revolved around it
God created this concentric cosmos
around 6,000 years ago in only
six days according to Genesis 1
and just one day in Genesis 2.
The Lord God was never far away.
He liked to walk in the Garden of Eden
during the cool of the evening.
He was always there whenever
you wanted to discuss with him
whatever was on your mind.
Those were the days.
But one day, Adam and Eve
fucked up big time.
They then heard the footsteps
of an angry God looking
for them and heard Him shout,
“WHERE ART THOU, BOY?”
But Galileo’s telescope showed
earth revolved around the sun,
only one star in a galaxy of
100–400 billion stars.
Three centuries later, Edwin Hubbell from
Mount Wilson Observatory discovered
there were other galaxies besides
the Milky Way.
Then after the Hubble Space Telescope
was launched in the 1990s, we learned
from its data along with that of other
advanced astronomical instruments,
there could be as many as 2 trillion
galaxies in the universe which began
close to 14 billion years ago.
Modern astronomers also tell us the
universe does not have a center.
One time me and Adam went on a twilight
hike to the summit of Mount Wilson,
a little over a mile above the Pacific Ocean
and about 2.5 million light-years from
Andromeda, Milky Way’s nearest
galaxy neighbor.
Suddenly, Adam cries out,
“WHERE ART THOU, GOD?”
God.
How I miss him.
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