You are talking, talking
Talking to Yourself or talking
To someone, somewhere unseen
Hidden in another space ;
Or to a mirage sitting in your mind.
It is confusing, one hears
A child talking, so the Observer
Begins to think it is a Real
Occurrence. Then there appears
An unexpected missing Man
Out of a Vacuum : Your Husband.
He calms You down.
he Hole that haunted You
Gets filled, cutting the umbilical cord
Releasing you from ghostly phenomena.
Are You a Therapist, who was engulfed
By an unsettling happening that disturbed
Your Psyche that needed another Therapist
To cure You. It is problematic, more so
Because, inexplicably you run in the night
To the beach, it seems, to end your life
When a semblance of Balance seemed
To have been restored ; yet wanting to
Give Yourself up to the roaring oceanic waves :
Committing Suicide. Why this act one wonders
When things seemed to have righted themselves.
The benevolent Waters delivered You back
To the quiescent Seashore. You are
Washed up but yet alive.
A bewildered being with a daughter
Who needs your comfort and care

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
Clutching At Straws Kicking In A Vacuum
More Poems by Hemal Jayasuriya
- Me Looking Out
- Questions and Answers
- Marching To Music
- Artistic Whole
- Outside and Inside
- Tender is the Moonlight
- Aircraft Carrier
- Soaring Up
- A Thought From 2021 Blooms
- Devotion
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Chasing Beauty In The Shadows
- Abstract Comes To Life
- All In One
- Waves, Particles, Vibrations
- Light and Sound
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Vanishing Dot
- A Thought Flows
- A Binary Spinning a Solid Web
- Imagining In A New Light
- Arching Over
- Edge of a Beach
- Random Walks
- Young and Old
- Olympia
- Interdependence
- Soul Mountain
- Most Strange
- Starburst
- Ordering Into Shape, Unpredictable
- Rashomon
- Differentation
- Prospera’s World
- You are my woman of abstract
- A Leaf In Free Fall, Rotating
- Empty Dot Amongst Moving Matter
- Tom’s Clock
- Women and Men
- The Feel of Beauty
- Vacuum Fluctuations
- Into The Woods
- Birds Sing
- Starlight
- From Zero to Meaning
- In A Third Space : Science And Humanities
- Light of the Non-existent Sun
- Where is Time
- Events Jostle Inside The Black Box
