James Moore Poet Narrative

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(“Ascending Triptych” aka “Shape Shifter”, 2011, original oil)

If it exists it has a function.
What is the function becomes the question,
Along with why and how it evolved.

Consciousness is simply our experience of the world
And this applies to whoever we are
Plant or animal, insect or human.

Consciousness is thus a given
For living things having experience
Even though self-consciousness 
May be extremely rare and unique
And rightly prized
Although wrongly attributed to Man alone.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg of course
And that egg, the cosmic egg, we all arose from
Could have simply been consciousness.
Or it could have been what was born 
From that egg, the light released after
“Let there be light!”

Which means there was something before
Consciousness.
Something primary to creation
A creator, of pure awareness perhaps,
Who needed creation
To become conscious.

(5/20/26)

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