UNABLE TO PULL IT TOGETHER

No particle known is unaffected

by gravity’s inexorable force,

but, perhaps it was not yet perfected

at the Big Bang, which was everything’s source.

The entire mass of the Universe

lacked the density to form a black hole

but instead expanded, which seems perverse,

as though gravity failed to play its role.

We’ve no idea what drove this inflation.

Atoms weren’t born, so it wasn’t fusion.

And now we observe acceleration –

unless this should prove to be illusion.

From distant galaxies, the spectrum’s shift

to red says we’re headed for a Big Rift.