Causality

Poem and Statement

Ceaseless, like a rushing river
The flow is not disturbed
Not by leaping fish nor falling stone
Quickly die the ripples 
And in this world
For every rebel, there must be a slave
For every void, there must be an ember
Some transcendental thread must bind them all
Else there is no dimension 

And so the weaver weaves 
at sunset the crimson death of day
at moonrise the pallid rebirth of dusk
the infant ethereal night of an eclipse 
the rainbow radiant discharge of some nova
distant, but visible to the one eyed man
Staring up at the cover of twinkling blackness
Where tiny holes of light puncture through

Back and forth back and forth 
the weaver goes 
This silent numen goes to work
Binding us in their tapestry 
Tugging at some fraying thread
Maybe I might rip it      

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Statement

This poem was inspired by the ideas of causality, free will and determinism, and the necessity of opposites. You may recognize the banner image of this post from the anime adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, which delves into all of these concepts.