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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

Interdependence

Stars won’t shine
If darkness was not present ;
There you are, Tom, a Binary
That brings much pleasure to the eyes.
Waves and Photons , one moment
A stream of Particles, then when sent
Through a Double Slit, you see
A sea of Waves; bewilderment abounds
Much like the fluctuations of Price ,
Availability or not, from day to day
Of Commodities. Certainty is lacking
In the World at large ; Jasper , it occurred
To me just now, that the perceived World
Will not be the case
If not for the existence of Language.
Now what would happen if all the Matter
Disappeared ; would there be Space