LIGHT

Light is breaking
to pieces
particles and waves
no one can decide
the outcome of subatomic enterprise
will be known
only through disruption
the perturbation of the form
now manifest in a broken world
the patterning of the living
already in ruins
all symmetry out-of-line
free energy in decline

And this is our space-time
Incoherent
but for the light that shines
though less than it was
before the past ever was
before the future became
what it is we are
ever incomplete
always about to be
something more to see
treading through history
walking the shadow
broken
by the light