So as reading through the reading of the week I stumbled upon “Fractal Geometry” and it jolted the hell out of me. The author goes on to speak, in stanza 5 or section 5, about mirrors reflecting mirrors and the infinite space created between the two panes. As always I have attempted to place myself in the middle of this and while thinking on the fractal mathematics you are a copy of a copy when reflected.
Reflection of absent light
Mirrors reflecting mirrors
Manifesting the emptiness that is
stretching the dark void of inescapable light
perpetuated and replicated
through atoms of lore who spread the virus of shadow
with the static rotations of unassuming parasites
across the vast open wilderness
where the conscious summon the will
to see the reflection within themselves
thought arises and
Like the phoenix rising from the ashes
I am birthed through this inspiration.
In the impenetrable darkness
I am.
pulling light from the dark
like water from stone
Seeping slowly, invading the emptiness
the darkness is conquered and the light flows
into waiting eyes
The brilliance of this moment
overcomes the weak
and I stand beholding,
peering into the waiting vision of myself
repeated
repeated
repeated
through light refracted, reused, and recycled
ad infinitum
Blank space recedes
falling back like the moon tides
and I am surrounded by the reflection
of the reflection
keeping constant vigil
always watching that which is.
Seeing the mirror image in the light
I stare behind closed eyes
into the genetic darkness
where boundaries are borderless
and the infinite lies in the heart of birth