Christopher Collingwood

My world is a string
of proverbs – a chain of
of 1’s and 0’s, an electronic
mosaic offering vision,
a wave of immersion
finding shape beyond the senses;
binary growth becoming
the lattice of a reality, a world in
birth by formula, coexisting
to a biological tangent.

Simulation brought to truth,
symphony by a linear key,
units deciphering meaning,
consciousness declining breath,
accepting a new reality –
a physical absence; an abstract
harmony escaping cells, inspiring an
artificial conversion, intelligence
on the wake of a photon, conceiving
the first digital sunrise.

Descendant of the circuit,
two worlds divide – held in your
palm is a world gaining
sustenance by digits,
knowing serenity of the bit
in continuance; the other world
expands out by the helix,
a mitosis of conception,
cellular boundaries in motion,
engaging existence with the
senses, a chaotic realm – finding
warmth in textures.

Synergy in aspiration,
no map truly separates the
two worlds; a breeze
seducing skin, may find a
path to a virtual cheek,
‘in the reality of a dream no
language is different’ – and in
the embryo of a smile, we find
common ground, emotion pleading
for the prophecy of sentience,
allowing the space
between a 1 and a 0
to become much closer.

 

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CHRISTOPHER COLLINGWOOD was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. He completed university in Sydney and graduated with a degree in business studies. Chris has devoted his spare time to writing, with works published in Not One of Us, Liquid Imagination, Andromeda Spaceways, Abyss & Apex, Hexagon, Shoreline of Infinity, and the recent Smoke in the Stars anthology, among other dimensionally unstable places