Fearless photon from afar,

What is your origin, where is your star?

Are you a wave or a particle stream,

Be in two places, so strange it must seem.

 

Messenger racing through infinite night,

Bearing the secrets of time in your flight,

Proof of suns, of a universe vast,

Forever the present, the future, the past.

 

You thread through the fabric where atoms dissolve,

An image of the silence no mere human can solve,

Glimmer of spirit, both partial and whole,

A spark of the cosmos that reflects our poor soul.

 

At the edge of creation, your journey still flows,

Through vastness of darkness where mystery grows,

A ripple of light from creation’s hot flame,

Photon immortal, nothing else bears your name.