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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation. He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society. His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.
POEM

Where is Time

Neither too fast
Nor too slow
Time runs to its own rhythm.
One neither sees it
Nor feels it
Only a circular motion
Of the clock hands coerces
You to tell that there is Time.
Three dimensions of Space
Remain unproblematic
Seen to be there
By one gulp of the eyes
Taking in the room.
So Time cannot be
Crushed by the gravity of a Black Hole
For it wasn’t there
In the flashof the Beginning