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Click.
The camera snaps as the shutter is released,
and a moment of light is captured.
As a particle of light I have watched
as others have been guided in the tunnel,
and bounced through a maze into the eye of life.
My path has taken many twists since I left my birthing place
on the sun, and bouncing off a maple leaf I find myself
heading for that tunnel.
Maybe I too shall achieve the ultimate goal? To be able to fly
into the eye and mind of something alive is hope of every particle of light.
Most end up being absorbed in the dark surfaces of the universe.
Sliding through the convex lens I am corralled with other
particles. Up ahead I see the light as it bounces through
to the observing eye.
Then like a dungeon gate the mirror slams up closing off
my only escape. Before me is now a flat black wall.
Am I to die in its unreflective depths?
Slowly the wall begins to slide away and behind its curtain is
revealed a reflective surface. It is a way out, but the hole is quick,
and only a few will make it through in time.
I have slipped through and now reflected back! Now I head
for the open spaces. In my bounce I hardly noticed the film
of particles I had slammed into.
I'm sorry to say that in my haste to escape, I slammed quite
harshly into that film, and now I fear that some of those
particles may be permanently fixed to that plane.
But I don't care. I'm still alive,
and I have a chance
yet to be seen.
Bill Bereza's Home of Programming, Info and Art
Last Updated on Monday, November 10, 1997.
