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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

Questions and Answers

The Effect : Gave rise to Entities
That now are in existence :
Matter and. Energy.
Cause : Not seen now,
Gone. The searched for
First Cause, Lost ;
Nowhere to be found.
Space, there is ; But how
Can Space be seen ; Conundrum ;
In a Room, a feeling of Roominess arises. You perhaps have the notion
That it all could be shrunk down
To Nothing – Zero, which can be imagined
As a recursive compressing descent to
Smaller and smaller Volumes, by the Mind.
It maybe the case that the Ultimate Nature
Of Things are : Beyond Words.
Only just one Word
Could be the exception : Seeing

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