A poem about entropy. |
Toward the Low-Energy State Forth the primordial radiance flares and seethes Symmetry rent and discrete forces bequeathed Distension ensues, space-time unsheathes As a shroud swathes the reigning light beneath. Protons churn and with their antipodes quelled An imparity serves, not all matter thus felled Nuclei bound, wherethrough elements newly weld The formative fires cool, the vault at last unveiled. Within beclouded depths the purest of stars ignite Metals forged by these besprent hearths alight Spiral galaxies aswirl, globular clusters unite Basking worlds accrete, with each night sky bedight. Each mote of stardust affords the elixir of life Through supernovae and rebirths the empyrean lingers rife Sentience blooms and in rich abundance fares blithe But the strewn tinder exhausts and the abiding stars writhe. The greatest and brightest thereof, fiercely the first to wane The main sequence follows, dim white dwarfs remain Stellar gleeds fading and shrinking by collapse foreordained The universe benighted, a darkness, lonely, cold and immane. Coaxed by gravity, masses piecemeal collide Black holes engorge and shred fodder by tides Whole galaxies relax and solar systems divide Stray dark matter snared and meagre warmth it provides. The bleak cosmos, diffused, all things wended astray By quantum peradventure the hardy protons decay Vigintillion years come to pass, black holes radiate and fray All things trend to death, a low-energy state evermore staid. |