A body has length, width, mass and occupies space But in what relationship to time? When did it begin and must it end? A mere witness is required at the mark of the line
But a rock is not a baby You could ask a scientist But as we walk there is no need to know For the body is there in motion and at rest
For man it is what it is Utility, beauty, an obstacle A nuisance A receptacle We perceive its properties And what it means to us We know it occupies space Regardless of how gracious Just because it is It does not care about what Unless it knows to survive Or it bleeds when cut
What science Tells me I’m cold? What theory Confirms I’m old? There is a perception of what I have seen Through my own eyes Without reading a book I wonder if I believe in lies
I know the absence of light can make red black I know a rock is a rock But the illusion is defined by a relation For color or stone is defined by what it is not
To what end a distraction of sound unoccupying space? A beautiful sound occupies time And time stops for us yet we know this is not true Because the witness has continued to draw the line The scientist can measure And I can walk in a circle As I ponder what it is that I hear I wonder if that is the particle? For what man once saw And could not hear Was there all along In the air When birds flew near
What is next? Will it erase everything we know? I don’t need gravity anymore than I need long ago For what change would be in me When a magnetism between the earth and myself Is assumed While that thing between you and I Is something I always felt
Someone called it God Something I cannot explain I wonder if they can We are resigned to believe in a superior brain I read the words about mass and volume And a higgs and a boson But the sun continues to rise and set And the wind and rain fill each season
They broke bread and opened a bottle They congratulated one another But who was saved and who was condemned In a sub-atomic world where no baby can find its mother?
The God Particle Can it save my Father or your wife? Can it save the world? Can it bring my friend back to life? I think we will continue to suffer For as knowledge continues to make itself available We retreat into the minds of others who think And man defines himself by what he is unable Yes by what he is unable to do And what he is unable to know And what he is unable to conceive And how he is unable to grow