LIGHT

If I want to see something, then I really must have light,

If that thing is very small the wavelength must be tight,

What if looking at the Planck length was my final goal?

The energy required for that would just make a black hole.

When I look at an amoeba eating what it’s earned,

Does all the light from my condenser give it bad sunburn?

A moth spirals towards my light and it’s life ends too soon,

Because it tries to stay at a right angle from the moon.

The light and dark have great influence on all our emotions,

We’re happy in the light but darkness gives us darker notions,

We put lights everywhere in order to defy the night,

First fire, and then candles, now electrons making light.

We put lights on our cars, we can hold torches in our hands,

We put lights on our ceilings and on ornamental stands,

Light comforts us and that’s the way we seem to want to be,

But when the last light is snuffed out I wonder what I’ll see.