2024 NaPM 02 April

[dukealien]

Seek and Hide


In the beginning
there was one simple rule:
I see you, you don’t see Me.
Hide and seek.
But since I make the rules,
I always win
whether seeking or hiding.

Then the game progressed,
your cleverness abounded, asking
What if I only think I see You,
and If I could see You, what
would You look like?

And most troubling,
If I could hear You,
what would You say?

Your seeking grew intense,
profound, the simple rule
branched from bifurcating tree
to climax forest so that all
you saw from cosmic to infinitesimal
matched but jaggedly,
My only hiding place
its intricated interstices–
determinist or happenstance,
wave or particle,
time passing or
worlds passing through it...

All derived from that one ground-rule
My invisibility
when I first said,
Let there be light.