Science did not fail me, nor I it. The age of commitment, of the unconditional Fell amid the rubble, after the Bombs Of nuclear autumn.
So in an embrace of burning tongues We lay briefly, sporadically Amid delicious sunset passion That each of us will remember In the minute before sleep, The second before death.
Perhaps every true scientist has known it, This ambivalent lust For the succulent food That deepens your hunger.
Kekule followed a single night’s dream; Newton pursued his madness In a backward race of Order and Law. Einstein rode a starry stallion Of hard-charging, time-driven Libido. Bohm, the fractal infinitude of wonder.
Science, your hair gave off light, Your lips brushed my every nerve With the imprint of despair. And you always gave enough To make me ask “what more?”