Everlasting echo

by Kevin T McEneaney

If you hear static on the radio,

you are hearing the Big Bang afterglow,

which resonates throughout the universe.

*

We are still attempting to understand

the actual size of the universe,

as well as how it came to happen,

just as our own inconceivable birth

remains a mystery to our bodies

immersed in our quotidian bracket

of autobiographical musings.

*

We prefer to think we move toward light—

metaphor for the lyric of our life.

*

Phones ride the microwaves of creation

as our voices resound with brevity.