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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

Women and Men

One half of a Yellow Sun
Is selfish, it cannot
Understand the discomfiture
Of the Other, there under a deep shadow
Whilst the unshadowed cross the waters of the Channel
Seeking the warmth down South
Of the gurgling blue Mediterranean.
Facts are such horrid things.
Now you said that in an Anti-Universe
Time runs backwards.
You can make your clockwork run
Anti-Clockwise. But it is anyway clocking up an imaginary Time, that
You are looking at.
It is only Entropy that moves one way, possessing directionality as
Disorder is always increasing in the Universe.
Marianne, you could no more tell
The direction of Mr. Willoughby’s  internal pointer
Than you could describe the fleshy workings of his neurons
Run by the changing colours of his mind