December 16, 2019Poem

There is no stillness

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There is no stillness

Motion is perpetual

Every solid object

Is in transition

Between one thing

And another

Atoms moving too quickly

To be seen

Mean everything is

An optical illusion

Signals carried

On internal hardware

So much energy lost

In the transfer

Without fluidity

A change of state

Remains invisible

The slow decay

Barely detectable

Until the breakdown

A visible transformation

Of movement

From one direction

To another

An outside force

Located in time and place

Provoking radical change

There is no such thing

As an empty space

There is no stillness

No solid basis

For belief

In objectivity

When everything

Flows in opposing directions

And theoretically

There is no stopping

Only resistance

To moving

From one place

To the next.