E=MC^2 (or: Einstein Was There)

Sail on pale oceans to the starry deeps
And I remember the start of creation,
From darkest light in windswept space -
A trillion miles just a trifle -
To the foggy divine, interspersed God
Within the gelled tome of the cell
And all composited in one measurement,
The unit that is a universe,
As arbitrary as the inch,
As important as the mind,
It has existed forever unchanging,
An island of being in naught.

No change ever graces the unit
Nothing enters or ever leaves,
And so too have we ever always been,
Our mass existing before light
Our energy existing before mass,
And so too will we ever exist,
Our mass extending into light
Our energy extending into mass
Past all death, time, and self
Into star children, becoming becomers
The stuff of God, the fabric upheld.

In lubricious flesh we will waste our days
Trapped still inside our eyes
Disfigured by time, unhinged by laws,
While always we have always been
The Universe and more than;
We are forever for we are mass:
Einstein is crucified upon the Hubble,
Drifting deeper into ancient light
And we are beautiful forever.