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The Cosmic Connection
In this wide world, the forces abound,
with darkness and light all around.
Within each force, we're intertwined,
in the vast cosmos, our fates are bound.
© Pen By Khadija
2023
The central idea: cosmic interconnection:
When I wrote this poem, I wanted to capture a feeling I often have: that we are all part of something much bigger than ourselves. In this wide world, so many forces move around us, and I believe we are quietly connected to all of them.
In my opening lines, I speak of the forces that abound, and of darkness and light all around. I chose these two because, to me, life is always a balance of opposites. We cannot know light without darkness, and both of them shape who we are. Poets have felt this for centuries; just as Dylan Thomas set his light against the dark, I wanted to show that these forces surround each of us.
My poem on darkness and light captures this same thought, as you’ll see below:
When I write that we are intertwined, I mean it sincerely. I don’t see us as separate beings drifting alone. I see us woven together, our lives touching in ways we may never fully understand. It reminds me of how Walt Whitman felt that every atom of himself belonged to everyone else. That is the kind of togetherness I hope my words carry.
And in my final line, in the vast cosmos, our fates are bound, I wanted to lift the poem up to the scale of the universe itself. Our small human lives, I feel, are tied to the great turning of the stars. Blake once saw a whole world in a single grain of sand, and in my own way, I am reaching for that same wonder, the idea that the smallest of us is joined to the largest of all things.
This poem is my reminder that none of us is truly alone. We are bound together, by light and by darkness, across this vast and beautiful cosmos.
Khadija Shabbir | Sheknowsall.blog
