In the beginning there was nothing...

[the astronaut]
The thought of light sickened him.
He wished the filiment had never been invented.
He hoped Thomas Edison burned in hell.
He wished electricity would seize to exist,
and that Benjamin Franklin's mom had perfected the abortion.
If the sun were to explode, he would smile.
If we lived in a black hole, well, he wouldnt do much of anything,
but he loved the idea.

Genesis 1:1 - 1:4 were torn from his Bible,
Burned and extinguished.
The irony.
There was light, and it was beautiful, and then it burned out.
Playing God wasn't easy.
"Let there be light." and there was;
"Let there be no light." and then there was not.
It was like seeing into the future.
The black ash on the floor
The black tint of the sky.

Everything made sense.
Everything was going to be alright,
in time.