[poem] Love is a universal constant
Sep. 12th, 2014 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettLove is a universal constant:
by which I mean it is
as remote, pervasive, and unimaginable
as the speed of light,
as ir/relevant as Planck or Avogadro,
and as varied and as integral.
You are loved
and love is absolute.
Years of light may separate you
but distant stars are no less hot,
burn no less bright:
you are a vantage-point, alone.
And you are an alchemist
of people: you have spent
your entire life in study,
the weights and measures easy in your hands
as flight, as wings.
You are a scientist. You choose
how to employ your tools,
what to discount, how best
you might experiment.
Love is not an answer, nor a framework,
nor a limit: it is a block, an element,
a piecemeal part of firmament
and you are gravity, mortar, gluon--
choose your scale: you,
sine qua non.
by which I mean it is
as remote, pervasive, and unimaginable
as the speed of light,
as ir/relevant as Planck or Avogadro,
and as varied and as integral.
You are loved
and love is absolute.
Years of light may separate you
but distant stars are no less hot,
burn no less bright:
you are a vantage-point, alone.
And you are an alchemist
of people: you have spent
your entire life in study,
the weights and measures easy in your hands
as flight, as wings.
You are a scientist. You choose
how to employ your tools,
what to discount, how best
you might experiment.
Love is not an answer, nor a framework,
nor a limit: it is a block, an element,
a piecemeal part of firmament
and you are gravity, mortar, gluon--
choose your scale: you,
sine qua non.
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Date: 2014-09-12 12:26 am (UTC)Remind me to comment more comprehensively when on not-tablet.
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Date: 2014-09-12 12:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-12 12:34 am (UTC)\o/
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Date: 2014-09-12 12:36 am (UTC)I'm particularly fond of "as ir/relevant as Planck or Avogadro", but yeah, gluon/sine-qua-non is a good one.
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Date: 2014-09-12 08:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-09-12 03:19 pm (UTC)Nodnod! Though I observe it wouldn't work too well read aloud.
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