There Was a Canvas

Description: I recently unearthed this. It was written in 2005 and I can't quite recall the context or inspiration behind it, but giving it a read seven years later, I thought it was alright and decided to share! My personal philosophies have definitely evolved since writing it, for what it's worth.

Before time and space and God, there was a canvas.

A divine canvas, with about as much purpose and ability as an amoeba.

A parasitic canvas, existing in white space, in white noise, in the paradox of nothingness.
(Had this canvas realized how impossible the concept of nothingness was, it would have fallen in upon itself and the story would end here. But it was only existent, and its mindlessness brought forth the nothingness it resided in.)

The canvas aged, and with age came color. With age came fragility, with fragility came brokenness, and that first tear brought forth shadow – darkness, to contrast the whiteness of nothing.

With age, came time.

With time, the canvas ripped, bent, wrinkled, dried, darkened, decayed and decomposed until it shaped itself life, and energy, and intelligence.

God became, and created the heavens, and the earth, and man, all of himself. From the first shadow there was night and day. From the discoloration of age came the green of the foliage and the blue of visible space. From the decomposition and chance guise of His own face, He created man, and named him and his wife after the sounds His first steps made upon rising from the void he incubated in.

The earth flourished in the universe.

Man flourished on the earth, and aged.

With age, came knowledge.

Knowledge brought forth the divine answer, and the dismemberment of the paradox of nothingness.

We collapsed inward on ourselves, the creation now a corpse. Time and space and mass and God and energy compacted tight in this last tiny bit of existence, the existence of destruction, a black hole, but not. Something far more powerful.

The compacted trash of what once was arrives on the other side, flattened, skewed, stretched, and bleached.