The Sciences Sing a Lullabye

eating-poetry:

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

By Albert Goldbarth

 “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

 "At every moment of our lives, we have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss."
— Paulo Coelho

 

The soul learns in spirals, not direct, linear paths.

Sonia Choquette 

 The grass is always greener where you water it.

  
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz