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A scientist
traveling back in time
gazed at
the dawn
of the universe
a gamma ray beam
shot back from
the age of darkness,
the death of a star
grown black
at the edge of womb.

Puzzled,
he pondered
til at last
the red shifted,
showing the age
of a weary traveler
from the place where
hyperstars birth,
and return in a light instant
to die.

A humbled seeker,
he stood in the afterglow,
and suddenly knew,
the age of the cosmos
and laws of creation.
He flew to his telescope,
and sits there still.
Unmoving, he stares,
as he searches the stars
for God.