Uncertainty

 

“The Uncertainty Principle” by Rene Magritte

 

 

you can know where it is

but not where it goes

if you know where it’s gone

it’s unclear where it’s been

anonymous powers

give human observation

arcane deep dynamic

impetus for change

powers that disturb

the very thing

that’s observed

to look is to alter

some quality of quanta

or quantity of motion

frustrating precision

in measurement’s gage

location and momentum

live in mutual denial

like when love and hate swim

with unequal speed

in the same salty tear

infinitesimal

mathematics get blurred

giving insecure burden

to quantum mechanics

conducing its physics

to relegate “what is”

to “what might be” at best

with existence itself

left to anyone’s guess

 

 

(originally posted April 2013)