Cliffhanger

“So it’s a very interesting time right now.” ~Justin Khoury

Symmetry is to the truth

As time is to change—

A bewitching, regular,

Unusually useful

Subset of an actual

Slice of nothing much,

Essential to everything,

Not the whole and not nothing,

Never nearly the whole thing.

It’s not as if this tells us

Nothing worth knowing.

From seasons to water clocks,

From rotating triangles

And falling objects

To the omega minus,

Time and symmetry,

Rhythm and invariance,

What does not seem to alter

When it alteration finds,

Have been the true loves

Of pathfinding minds.

Whatever works so often,

So well, becomes a beacon

Lighting imagination,

Drawing it deeper

Into the forest

Toward that hidden cabin,

Mysteriously homey,

The welcoming windows lit

By firewood cut from the heart

Of the forest that goes on

Forever until it ends

At a drowned coast’s cliffs.