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Song of Frost and Flame

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This poem is inspired by Norse mythology, telling the story of the creation of cosmos and a shadow to its final fate, Ragnarok.

The lore of Norse mythology strives on the endless cycle of conflict and chaos, beginning from the very first form of existence arising from a conflict between ice and flame, and the nine worlds being forged from the corpse of the first sound, Ymir. I thought this has some parallels to the secular cosmology, in which the universe apparently emerged from a destructive event (i.e. the Big Bang), and life and civilization developed from endless battles of the "survival of the fittest".

https://norse-mythology.org/tales/norse-creation-myth/

The world was born of ice and flame Of crystal drops that filled the empty plane When Muspell's heat burned Niflheim Where life unveiled from the endless stream And formed a voice whose name was Scream And shapes spilled out from his unseen dream The waves then rise to cast new sounds Soft yet gentle, the vibrant hums Freed more life from their icy bounds Defrost, the Aesir thus came to be The first of which was so-called Búri Whose son then wed and begat three Three gods then warred against the Scream For they saw no good inside his dreams His pores sweat venom in boundless streams That primal Scream thus fell down and shattered His flesh and bone, all torn asunder These then were used to forge all matter Henceforth came an age of craft divine New worlds were built, 'til there were nine Bound by Yggdrasil, their verdant spine Yet discord hangs across the cosmic loom Weaving prophecies that foretold gloom: What bore the world shall be its doom War and death had shaped Yggdrasil's roots And destruction echoes within its shoots Thus, war and death shall be its fruit

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