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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

From Zero to Meaning

Getting up one morning in a bedroom at Newnham
Looking out into the manicured green lawns
Gemma said : my nose is blocked, no I am not Really thinking straight at all
In fact there is not a thought in my head.
Well, I can rise above this messy state :
Nothingness of my Being, me, hanging nowhere,
By writing about it. Then there is
Some meaning to it. Well, I can look
At one of the many quirky paintings and photographs
Hung on the walls. That is a slender thread
I can hang onto and pull myself
Up into the World, get into the thick of things
Interpreting it right from the roots
Rising up to the stars. Then I will have
Become. No longer will the World be a blank sheet.
Then I might begin to read some Merleau-Ponty
And Sophocles, make a raft out of them
To float to land on some sunny beach