Thought Provoking Art Poetry Challenge  

https://youtube.com/watch?v=55885Qnt7Ps
  
"I think we have a good chance of surviving    
long enough to colonize the solar system."  
~ Stephen Hawking    
   
The alchemy of    
modern physics rests  
in general relativity—  
   
the gravity of understanding  
a Universe at large:    
galaxies, clusters, stars  
all holding position;  
   
and, quantum mechanics—  
smaller scale being:    
sub-particles, atoms, molecules  
electromagnetic forces  
occupying form    
   
The two are incompatible    
within a diminutive scale—  
planckions of tiny black holes;  
and an initial Big Bang    
   
Deeper frameworks of reality    
must be discovered    
to harmoniously integrate    
both into a unifying    
Theory of Everything  
   
Stardust drifts in our bones—  
atoms, sub-atomic particles:  
neutrons, protons, electrons    
vibrating musical strings    
of gravitational mergings—  
   
creating, and re-creating    
our bodies over and again  
throughout lifetimes  
until fully fused as ONE—  
   
tearing assunder the veil  
we so long believed separated
infinite and unknown
dimensions between us    
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Creed: my sacrifice

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-fyNgHdmLI
 
She cracks through  
a crepe-paper husk of fragile memory;  
her fragments scatter  
where glass water shatters,
every color in her image.
 
My one true eye sees her --
recalls in an instant coming alight
and how she was my candle drowning
in a dream as the band played on
all the while to her tribute.
 
I never left her there where
she broke through my fractured skin
to remain; burned, branded
as I grew old --
I am only young where she still is.
 
I give myself up in pale patinas
on crevaced blank pages uncrinkled,
the story never penned there --
but I can be relinquished in her
to stay buoyant;
partly obscured, partly ending,
never believed.
I rise with her sloshing tide
and in her wake, I'm free.
 
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