God's Particle Poem by K.S.Subramanian Subramanian

A cubbyhole from which eases out
with a gurgling sound, gleaming
crystalline stream swaying across
the stone-cut plains; beaming
in swelling pride is the mighty river.

Pure water crystals spawn a settlement,
lingo and mien beyond the ions of memory.
The first dropp in cubbyhole nebulous, extinct.
Its latent mystery hazier than the cloud.
The eye alive to the throbs of the Present,
its digressions, ugliness, endless pain.
The first dropp never knew what'd unfold.
...........

An uncanny Bang it was, from which
wafted the elixir, spawning the Cosmos,
then life forms defying all but death;
Yet it nested deep in the shadows.

An icon of fear, love and surrender.
It charted the mind, also led it astray;
(Un) truths meshed in labyrynths of grief
until Galileo, Einstein winnowed the way.

Self ever in a cocoon, eye in a squint
the icon unsteady, hallow down to a strip;
Will mind step into a higher pedestal
when it's unmasked as chemistry's warp?