Small Things Of Life Poem by s yadu krishnan

I wonder how our lives would have been
Had no one paid heed to the things not seen?
I wonder what the future would then have seemed,
If he'd left it at the visible scale, had John Dalton forgot to dream.

For matter would have stood still then
and evolution frozen at the length of ten!
As I gaze at clusters of atoms today,
Probing them with precision, a task once a dream to foray
As grateful as I am to the ones who got us here, this far,
It was the little things that caught their attention, it was them that held the spar.

And here we are, in the modern days
Let's walk through memories and sing grace;
For the little things that were once not seen,
Have conquered worlds today, they have made medicine!

The progress of science I owe, to the ones who were keen
Energy they discovered from new atoms, unseen
And they taught us how the tiny atoms, as harmless they seem;
In the wrong hands, they collide! and how they turn mean.
Life, after all, is Science to me.
Some bonds you understand, some you let it be.
But I wonder how our lives would have been
If no one pays heed to the small joys, & them glee.

For the small things of life as we all do see
Are the big things after all! You don't let it be.