A Unified Theory by David Sutherland

A Unified Theory
by David Sutherland

^. Here is a parlor game,
^. Galileo's orb-like spheres revolve
^. On a merry-go-round of invisible poles.
^. One holds one round up to chin,

^. The pie plate on wobbly stand,
^. Then gravitates to a body
^. Whose angle and mass
^. Inclines one to another.

^. In time the stronger force
^. Will intercede to plant its seed,
^. Sow its field, till its row,
^. Much the way sunlight tames

^. Invisible horizon in waves of
^. Collective ecstasy. And the day,
^. Its weaker force, a phoenix wheel
^. Of mass to energy, life to death.

^. Yet if we stroll round these orbs
^. Spin our eyes and heads, the
^. Eclipse of an age old tale sleights
^. Into view. Man's bittersweet history

^. Of triumph and tragedy leave
^. Empty symmetries earthed in
^. A spacial realm of discord.
^. Here, the orbs collapse into

^. Gravity's well of chaos and
^. Disharmony, a causal effect
^. Remains for love to unify.
^. The rest is theory.

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