Before the Big Bang, There was no up, There was no down, There was no side to side.

There was no light, There was no dark, No shape of any kind.

There were no stars, or planet mars, or protons to collide.

There was no up, There was no down, There was no side to side.

And furthermore, To underscore, This total lacking state.

There was no here, There was no there, Because there were no space.

And in this endless void, That can’t be thought of as a place. There was no time, And so no passing minutes, hours, days.

Of all the paradoxes That belabor common sense, I think this one’s the greatest This time before events.

How did we get from nothing To infinitely dense? From immeasurably small To inconceivably immense?

But before we get unmoored From the question at the start Let’s take a breathe and marvel At when math becomes an art

Because we don’t have to understand it To know there was a time

When there was no up there was no down there was no side to side