Gravity
Un-stuff
giving us depth, breadth and height
holding every 3D molecule in due order
precedence, density:
setting out the directions, quadrants
and the nadir and zenith.
A homely planetary map to orient by,
keep upright.
A primer for the opposites and duality,
by the push-pull Yin and Yang,
materializing abstract principles
and sacred geometries into form;
engineering impossibilities
into blueprints and protocols
then on to tangible realities so-called;
All, perceived or subjectively verified
by some kind of sensory device
innerly, or out.
By relationship. Relativity.
Yet
“Each man is an island”
likewise every cell,
and who knows, every cell, a Man.
He/they may, like all that’s born and dies somehow breathe, move, reproduce
whether in micro seconds or millenia,
upheld and contained
part of, entangled while distinct.
The chance to blow apart to smithereens
or collapse into blackest nothings
fended off by darling gravity:
one-track, straight-jacketed - up to down
guardian and enabler of 3D Life itself.