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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

Me Looking Out

That which makes  Me
What I am  :  I-ness .
I see an  iPhone ;
An Object, well defined,
Quite separate, from Myself,
Sat there on a wooden Table.
The Seeing, of that metallic black Entity
Seems quite Real ;  Not imaginary.
Then a question crosses
Into the thinking space :
Who is it that is Seeing
It just now. Try as much as
One can, there is
No answer. A referent
Is missing : a  Circle
Without a  Centre.
Me, searches frantically for that  I