How many ways
to count the stars
in their galaxies
flung across
eighteen billion
light-years
since it all began?

Just when
were the Laws of Physics
first posted?
who read them then
to stir the brew primordial?

O grant us
a sable understanding
the missing nine tenths
of what we were given
when all was energy

before the comets spun off
their silken trails
and suns swept up their planets

and the green grass grew not
anywhere in a billion galaxies

 © Tom Berman

Scientists have posited recently that dark energy makes up about 75% of the Universe, dark matter about 21%, and visible matter only about 4%.

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