Physics: a Pantoum

Physics is the art of motion.

He said “sometimes you get so close to something and just lose it.”

Something well-built stands, others collapse.

Eventually, everything pulls apart.


I said “sometimes you get close to someone and just lose it.”

You put in things you can quantify and never get them back.

Eventually everything falls apart,

like eggs that can never be unscrambled.


You put in things you can quantify and never get them back.

Not just time changes but the space itself,

like eggs that can never be unscrambled

eventually everything pulls apart.


Not just time but space changes

great cities, rocket ships, cosmos

everything falls apart.

Physics is the art of that motion.