35,000 ft above sea level
At 35,000 ft above the sea I saw you, I felt you
At 10 ft below the sea, I saw you, I felt you
And under that, and under that too,
It was a tender surrender
a cauldron in which the miseries brew
I saw you when I walked through the streets
I saw you in the veiled smiles
In humble eyes
In lowered gazes
In furtive glances
In the Albatross’ flight
In the Falcon’s descent
I saw the moon shudder then surrender eventually
I saw the sun’s heart pounding
I saw the strings, intertwined, unwinding
I saw the fabric rippling
when you became the center of the universe
You were there
In the celestial frenzy
dancing with the stars
the cosmos’ fireworks with the nebulae and supernovae and dwarfs
are all attempts in vain to have beauty comparable to yours
you are the entity that makes the universes jealous
the poor moons envy,
begging for you to shine on them
what constellation are you, I often wonder
what magic do you have in you
You are a magnificent embodiment of the laws of nature
You would have eased the job for Noether and Heisenberg
if only they were not mortal
if only time did not behave the way it does
your luminescence would have illuminated the universes
you would have over powered the Black Holes
in their attraction and grandeur
in their awe and splendor
yet you are human
a human that feels like Wool
smells like Daisies and Earth
And I see that you have the Planets tensed
Venus’ shell shocked, it has slowed down its orbit
you lie down and make the Earth spin slower
ever since you’ve been around I have seen my friends not talk about the beauty of the red planet
Jupiter, too, the great red giant of gas, has bent the knee
you have broken Saturn’s pride
Uranus and Neptune are still blue
and you’ve literally pushed Pluto out of the game
and you know what happened to mercury
oh don’t ask its fate dear
she scornfully turned away for a long time, she is shaken up to the core, she takes the sun but cannot face you
I saw you in your shining armor
standing tall, brave and beautiful in the cosmic arena
I always wondered how the universe condenses and encapsulates all of itself inside your brown eyes
we’ve been trying to explain you since long before you were here
Einstein’s relativity
Schrödinger’s cats
Heisenberg’s uncertainty
the orbits, the tides, the gravity, the disorder and the system
I saw you in their equations
I saw you in the numbers and the symbols and the weird Greek letters they used
I saw Einstein fretting over your silk ball gown rippling
I didn’t see Newton for four months trying to explain how you went to navigate the celestial playgrounds
yet I see you
a human
worrying over an explanation of yourself
worrying over yourself
I see you everyday
whether you’re there or not
I see you celestial
I see you and I see a Universe
I see a Universe trying to understand itself
Meeting you, I understood what metaphors really were
heavens a metaphor for a place when I’m alone with you
hell’s everything else
reality is the transcendent thought of you
death is the time not associated with you
you are life and the purpose of evolution
I saw you and I render the philosopher’s work incomplete
they could not explain why home became you
I saw you and I render the biologist’s work incomplete
they cannot explain how you affect life in your vicinity- breathing life and collapsing respirations simultaneously
However, the closest all of humanity has come to explain you
is through physics
the only veil that covers you whole
the only pair of wings that give you flight
the only dress that shows your true beauty
the only tiara that fits your godly existence
and, thus, I see you everywhere
because I’m a physicist
I have seen you from the grandest of scales
to sizes where waves and particles are at one
I have seen you radiant and iridescent like the sun in all its glory
I have seen you calm and small like cold matter
but sometimes I feel like I don’t know you
I don’t know you
More than half of you, I can’t grasp
I can’t understand you all the times
your beauty makes me cry
In the unidirectional time-space we are
It feel like I have known you since the beginning (if there even was one)
and my quest to grasp you in your entirety shall never cease
because I see you everywhere
and
At 35,000 ft above the sea I saw you, I felt you.
At 10 ft below the sea, I saw you, I felt you.
And under that, and under that too,
It was a tender surrender
a cauldron in which miseries brew
but do you ever see me too?
The author is a firm believer in the Multiverse theory because the Higgs Boson’s discovery did not directly point towards super-symmetry and he can’t seem to compactify his lovers domain to a single Universe, hence the word ‘Universes’.
Muzammil Khan
