The Big Bang
- Maryam Ghouth
- Mar 2
- 1 min read
Maybe, the bright flash of light
and the feeling of ascent
that some people sense
during a near-death event
is the universe when it was
just an opaque gleam
and electrons emitted photons
every way they beamed.
Maybe, memory of this
is encoded in our brains
from when we were particles
with no stars to name,
floating freely
as quark and lepton
through the molten hush
of the space-time dawn,
and it is this we glimpse
when death comes around
to shroud our eyes
in its origin.
Published in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Anthology, 2026.
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