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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

Into The Woods

Are you a lost soul
Looking for that purpose
That brought you in
Screaming out of the womb
Searching for meaning, then
You found it, at the moment
Your beady eyes caught him
In their pointed gaze. Yourself, you froze
The Being moved not, rooted to itself, it found itself.
There, then you rejoiced, you didn’t know why
You, and I, you were not in charge of your doing.
Never mind the sparkle of a hundred billion
Billion galaxies and why they are in their places
He was the answer to your Why? You just needed him