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All Things Fall Apart - Aka Everything Is Nothing

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("Eye of Newt", 2020, original encaustic)

All Things Fall Apart (aka Everything is Nothing)

All things fall apart
because all things 
naturally self-destruct
as entropy exerts its shadowy force.

Order, or whatever we posit as non-chaos
is thus fleeting
held up by causes and conditions
that are themselves fleeting.

Thus the shadow of non-existence
permeates all form, all thought,
all notion of existence,
as its true nature.

All things fall apart
through self-destruction
because they never existed
in the first place.

What is this shadowy entropy?
A lack at the heart of existence
who’s existence can only be seen
in its fleeting forms.

And yet, forms arise continuously,
as merely labeled things
in ordered appearance 
for our fleeting enjoyment and use.

The question then is,
“What is the creative force?”
Ah, the mystery of mind
vainly searching for itself.

 (10/29/23)

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Timothy Ray

Date: 10/30/2023 6:14:00 AM

the heavens live to die and yet in that death life finds itself again....we see the random chaos but our devices and understanding cannot see the computation and know the answer....science cannot give you all the answers...computational irreducibility will never get you the answer, it looks random and yet it is not...loved the poem

James Moore
Date: 10/30/2023 6:25:00 AM

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.... These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery." (Lao Tzu)