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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

You are my woman of abstract

Love here in Valparaiso

Like the Euclidean perfect Circle

And Square, there somewhere, unreachable

The even if got at, you just won’t fit in

With one another. You are obscure

Shapely things emanating a cold fire

Burning through Everything, Nothingness

Arrowing through a crevice of oozing flesh

On a fiery path to reach the garden of Infinity.

Inside that fleshy House of love

That flickering orange flame of love binds

Unknown fleshes not knowing whomsoever they are

And the wick keeps sprouting and gushing licks

Of massless fire that exist as if they were there but not there

Like a metaphysical shadow. Mind keeps grasping

To touch and catch a reality like a seagull, diving

Into the salty ocean to catch a fish. The fish,

A value of a variable :  given that

f :  x ———>  1/x  and   g :  x ————>  (  x  +  1  ) ^ 2

The fish  :   g f ( 2 ) ;  but what is it : 

Fish, the mind says,  9/4. Love is as abstract as that