i’d been carving
pieces
off my little
sliver of light
compelled to it
because it made me feel
that divine
spark been shining
on youcrazy
across the ether
that’s why I’d come
to believe in
conservation
i could almost sense it
near that ... great equilibrium
the atomic stopwatch strikes
nil then darkness falls
the final curtain
for a life spent
in the spotlight
you said sharing
songs is not like
splitting atoms
releasing heat and lights
from protons, to photons to quarks
til the building blocks of life
get down to strings attached
it’s just a theory you
know sooner or later
you end up with an
undivisible remainder
all attainable
energy spent
how many
dimensions
must we postulate
and in the end
end up with
too little too
late
you showed me something
i hadn’t seen coming
in my con-fusion
the energy that binds
greater than the sum of molecular parts
like the heart
of a star
when two become
one and something
new is
born
mass is lost
a proton here a neutron
there it’s true yet
the solar furnace pays
with interest
what was lost
quite a pair then
me with my lithium
core and
you in your solar
cell a
difference in
kind i thought no
longer alone
good galileo grant
faith to trust worlds
yet unseen courage
to invest in futures
unexpected