Tick, Tock, Time flows
Forward, if you know that way.
Tock, Tick, that is never the case ;
Cosmos cannot be made to run back.
Quarks, Black Holes, Dark Matter, these
Thoughts are maddening says Bernard.
Aristotelian Worldview was most satisfactory
To me. Yes, I know a saucepan of boiled water runs down
The gradient to room temperature, a cricket ball
Driven through the air may break a glass window ;
There is never a possibility of reversing in total
The sequence of events that occurred ; something
Like heat, or a shape cannot be restored completely
To its original State. What was thought to be
The Nature of Things, gets proven to be wrong.
This world, according to Thermodynamics
Will run down, ending in a weird milieu
Of an unimaginable Nothingness. But No, that
Might not quite happen, Michael, for it is
Possible that there are Singularities
Hiding within the expanding Space, that may
Spontaneously explode, starting the growth of new
Light Cones that begin their outward journeys
Out from of our present one. If you
Step out from this one, to a nascent, expanding cone
You could escape that impending noiseless
Cold State of sheer stillness. Essentially, you
You have jumped ship, to keep going
On a new curve. But does it matter. These thoughts
Make you become excitedly alive, and being wrong
Opens up new possibilities, bringing joy to the Being.
My thought might be wrong, but then again
Michael, it might be right. In that case, amongst
All these wrongs that stir us to seek the right
What if your thought is found to be right in a sea
Of wrongs. Will I be then
In a Sad or Happy State.
Now, that is something to ponder, this
End-State of being right

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
Tom’s Clock
More Poems by Hemal Jayasuriya
- A Thought From 2021 Blooms
- Devotion
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Chasing Beauty In The Shadows
- Abstract Comes To Life
- All In One
- Waves, Particles, Vibrations
- Light and Sound
- Dance is Intangible
- Mercury
- Vanishing Dot
- A Thought Flows
- A Binary Spinning a Solid Web
- Imagining In A New Light
- Arching Over
- Edge of a Beach
- Random Walks
- Young and Old
- Olympia
- Interdependence
- Soul Mountain
- Most Strange
- Starburst
- Ordering Into Shape, Unpredictable
- Rashomon
- Differentation
- Prospera’s World
- You are my woman of abstract
- A Leaf In Free Fall, Rotating
- Empty Dot Amongst Moving Matter
- Women and Men
- The Feel of Beauty
- Vacuum Fluctuations
- Into The Woods
- Birds Sing
- Starlight
- From Zero to Meaning
- In A Third Space : Science And Humanities
- Light of the Non-existent Sun
- Where is Time
- Events Jostle Inside The Black Box
