{shadowy, sunny}
Ulises Vargas
December 11, 2025.
Patterns, everywhere.
Every choice is another occurrence
in the pattern of one day;
one week;
one year;
one hour.
Patterns make you rhyme,
and patterns make you reason.
Patterns, everywhere, arise,
from one occurrence into the next.
Patterns follow you,
like sunlight follows the sun.
Patterns avoid you,
like the shadow avoids the sun.
Patterns push you,
like—usually—the smell of sewage.
Patterns pull you,
like—usually—the scent of sex.
Patterns define you,
algorithmically—
a series of cause and effect;
a series of stimulus and response.
Patterns are you,
wholeheartedly—
a conditioned intelligence;
a consolidated sentience,
produced as a sum of experience,
which itself is not aware
of the billions of neurons,
connected in trillions of patterns,
making trillions of calculations
every nanosecond,
but diluted into ignorant consciousnesses,
limited in scope and perspective.
Patterns are why every reason has a rhyme,
and why every rhyme has a reason.
Patterns trend one way,
and tend to stay that way.
Patterns trend a trillion ways
to finally point one way,
but diluted into ignorant consciousness,
limited in scope and perspective,
after making trillions of calculations
connected in trillions of patterns
by billions of neurons
to produce a sum of experience,
a consolidated sentience;
a conditioned intelligence,
every nanosecond.
Patterns, like sunlight, are predictable
because the sun follows patterns.
Patterns, like the shadow, are predictable
because the sun follows patterns.
Sunny days evoke memories of sunny days.
Sunny occurrences feel sunny,
like all the other sunnies.
Shadowy nights evoke memories of shadowy nights.
Shadowy occurrences feel shadowy,
like all the other shadows.
Everything now is either sunny, or shadowy.
Nothing yet was neither sunny, nor shadowy.
Listen: that pleasant voice is sunny;
and that unpleasant voice is shadowy.
Listen: that scream, in nightmares, is shadowy;
and that scream, in daydreams, is sunny.
Listen: that leaf, rustling, is sunny;
and that leaf, crunching, is shadowy
In as few as two occurrences—
or two nanoseconds—
twice can make a pattern;
and the shadowy is dubbed shadowy
so that, next time, it is, again, shadowy;
and the sunny is dubbed sunny
so that, next time, it is, again, sunny.
Thus, sunny days evoke memories of sunny days.
Sunny occurrences feel sunny,
like all the other sunnies.
Shadowy nights evoke memories of shadowy nights.
Shadowy occurrences feel shadowy,
like all the other shadows.
Patterns are you,
wholeheartedly—
a series of cause and effect;
a series of stimulus and response.
Patterns define you,
algorithmically—
a conditioned intelligence;
a consolidated sentience,
produced as a sum of experience,
which itself is not aware
of the billions of neurons,
connected in trillions of patterns,
making trillions of calculations
every nanosecond,
but diluted into ignorant consciousnesses,
limited in scope and perspective.
Patterns rhyme,
and patterns have reason.
Patterns, everywhere, arise,
Patterns, always, are.
Patterns, as always, are.
Patterns are made always
in all ways—
in a trillion ways—
to finally point one way,
at the scale of trillions of nanosecond occurrences,
between billion of neurons,
up to the scale of sunlight following sun
and of shadow avoiding sun.
1.
1, 2.
1, 2, 3.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
3, 1, 2, 3, 4.
3, 1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 2, 3, 4.
1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4.
1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4.
1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4.
1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5,4, 4.5.
0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
-1, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
-1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
-4. 5, -4, -3.5, -3, -2.5, -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
-4. 5, -4, -3.5, -3, -2.5, -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5.
-5, -4. 5, -4, -3.5, -3, -2.5, -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5.
-6, -5.5, -4. 5, -4, -3.5, -3, -2.5, -2, -1.5, -1, -0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6.
{negative infinity, positive infinity}
{negative infinity, positive infinity}
{negative infinity, positive infinity}
{negative infinity, positive infinity}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}
{shadowy, sunny}