Poem- Einstein, My Dad And I By V.N.Giritharan Poem by Navaratnam Giritharan

looking at the starry night sky,
Beside my dad,
in front of our house,
A sweet childhood memory!

As he lay down on the easy chair,
I find a hammock in the
*Sarong he wore..

While looking at the night sky,
listening to him
from the hammock
where I lay down
is my favorite pass time.

He talked about stars;
He talked about planets;
He talked about satellites;
He talked about many other
astronomical things.

I listened; listened; listened
with great interest.

I felt wonder when listening to him.
I felt astonishment when looking at him.

In one of these precious moments,
He talked about Albert Einstein.
That was the first time
I heard about him.
he has been my favorite
person of knowledge
there after.

Space and Time are
no longer separate;
No longer absolute,
but relative
except
the speed of light.

Space and Time are
no longer separate
entities,
but
A non separable.
space-time continuum.

We exist in
the space-time continuum,
he declared.

Einstein, A man of
cosmic intellect;
A true
knowledge – revolutionary
on space-time.


* Sarong – A fabric often wrapped around the waist and worn by men and women in many Asian countries. It is also known as lungi in India