In the dark, vast expanse of the universe,
there is an abundance of incredible creations and hideous beauty.
Under the flaming sun,
in this complex civilization,
The notion of splendidness can be seen as brilliance
because across this fertile land,
That beauty is magnified by the presence of its ominous counterpart, ugliness.
Even in the presence of darkness,
The allure of heavenly lights intensifies in the cosmos,
as well as around and within us.
Even in the presence of pain, beauty hideously persists.
This dance with the hideous and the beautiful forges
The meaning of what one perceives and reveres.
This tussle between inner clarity and outer chaos,
with good and evil,
this balance of lambency and murk,
among the imbalance of deceit and uprightness
in this frightening,
and also beautiful, place we call home,
A world where perfection seems seldom perfected
like it was at the conception of primordial creation. ...