04-10-2019, 10:30 AM
Reluctance
He was not, at first, averse
to what others found perverse:
Isaac Newton’s universe
(mass and light that don’t converse)
wasn’t true– quite the reverse–
they’re identical, diverse
vibratory forms, inverse,
rhymes in alternating verse.
(But he loosed a diatribe
when his colleagues dared describe
random quanta, all the same:
dice cast in a godly game.
But as member of the tribe
he’d no choice but to imbibe
what their numbers said was true
though it put his nose askew.)
He was not, at first, averse
to what others found perverse:
Isaac Newton’s universe
(mass and light that don’t converse)
wasn’t true– quite the reverse–
they’re identical, diverse
vibratory forms, inverse,
rhymes in alternating verse.
(But he loosed a diatribe
when his colleagues dared describe
random quanta, all the same:
dice cast in a godly game.
But as member of the tribe
he’d no choice but to imbibe
what their numbers said was true
though it put his nose askew.)
Non-practicing atheist