Ten to the One Hundredth Power Years from Now*
When all has turned to nothing more than rays
Of radiation, and, not even that,
Just radiation not in glowing ways
That people think of light, the final splat
Will be unthinkably enormous, stretched
Out trillions and trillions and trillions of
Times, will the time we know as time be etched
On vacuum? Since rays will darkly shove
All matter into nothingness, all time
Will be immeasurable since it will
Be rulerless. Eternity will slime
Away when matter has become a spill
Of boundless beams that hit against the void.
Mohammad’s God will then be unemployed.
~ Phillip Whidden
*That’s ten-thousand, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years.