Harmonium Poem by Barry Middleton

A song without a second verse
cannot sum up the universe.

I cannot study every theory
that fails the fundamental query.

If universe ends in fire or ice,
it is a curious device

where once music of the spheres
was harmony to calm our fears.

Then nothingness and silence fall,
a final act, no curtain call?

I do not travel with the mystics
but I have faith in quantum physics

to start the universe again
without the help of gods or men.