Draft of Text for Opening

Here is the text of the 'guided meditation'. Also, I've pasted one of the questions in front, which I'm proposing for use in the pedestrian sequence that proceeds the lights-out moment (sorry if that doesn't make sense). Let me know what you all think:

They say a clock is ticking- ticking on the life of the sun, ticking on the timers of bombs, ticking on an elliptical universe, ticking on the arrival of the Messiah, ticking in soot-darkened sky and I want to know, if you’re even listening, which clock do you hear ticking?



close your eyes

darkness is the repose of the universe.
the twitching bit of light
where your eyelids are trying
not meet is all there is of light
in the entire universe
in the vast, cool space between
the violence of stars rests the real.
darkness within darkness.

open your eyes

this is how the story goes:
a series of accidents
or
a divine fiat
or
an endless cycle
sets spinning a concentric mass
of water and tears, congregated
on debris from
an invisible beginning
(predicting)

this is how the story ends:
a series of accidents
or
a divine fiat
or
an endless cycle
returns, bringing darkness
debris and tears
all congregated on a concentric mass of water