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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

Mercury

An opaque silver grey
A running ball, a liquid metal
Not solid, Not organic
So metallic, yet unlike
A well-formed pure Copper kettle :
It is Mind like, uncatchable, there and
Not there, known Not, even to itself
Or another. Placed on a glass plate. 
It runs, unshaped, like an Amoeba
In many directions, all at once
Changing shape from moment to moment
Akin to a wandering Mind
In idling mode, wondering
What elemental thought, object or idea
It should latch on to next
To try and smother its restlessness
Looking for a quietened fulfilment
That satisfies its thirst of wanting
To know itself and its nature ;
A  Non-Binary slips through your fingers like water