[poem] Love is a universal constant

[kaberett]

Love 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.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

:)

Remind me to comment more comprehensively when on not-tablet.

[kaberett]

I AM SO IMPRESSED WITH MYSELF FOR RHYMING "GLUON" WITH "SINE QUA NON"

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[alexseanchai]

I'm particularly fond of "as ir/relevant as Planck or Avogadro", but yeah, gluon/sine-qua-non is a good one.

[kaberett]

I am super-enjoying using the / construction in my poetry atm as is probably obvious >_> (It is something that I have borrowed liberally from German in the context of gendered nouns and just... decided to reapply everywhere, particularly to settings in which I want to say think two things, both at once).

[alexseanchai]

Nodnod! Though I observe it wouldn't work too well read aloud.

[davidgillon]

Throw in an obvious beat just where the / is, maybe?

[cosmolinguist]

As well you should be. :)

[kaberett]

:DDDDDDDDDDDD

[untonuggan]

♥

[silveradept]

Love as an elementary force certainly has an appeal here.

[shehasathree]

♥