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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

Devotion

I am never lonesome or lost
When I see, from outside, those two birds
Come and are sat, daily, on my windowsill.
As I turn my gaze to see far away snow capped high Mountains
Of the Himalayas, my Self, soars, carried by the wings of the Mind
Creating options, pathways and Worlds, to explore,
Knowing that only one will be realised, the rest
Become mere Conterfactuals, pressed to a dot
And sent to the Past. Agni, the one that purifies
Himself, whom the falcons venerate, I call
You, a chosen one, piling up and holding the fire
Of Creation, sat amongst kindly gods. Were you placed
By Shiva, in the middle of the sky, a majestic Eagle,
Like a spotted stone, beauteous to behold,
Moving to and fro, throughout those
Infinite spaces up there. Are you one of those
nes, who know and protects the borders of the Firmament.
Lord of nourishment, God, your gleaming eye, let it bestow
Upon us, an abundance of God-loving splendour

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