An Atom

Dedicated to Melinda Kucsera,
for her interest in the Quantum Theory

Am I not like an atom in every way,
predictable and intuitive on the face of it
but defying shreds of common senses at the core?
   

Am I not everywhere unless I am pinned,
wriggling at a certain spot by an observer,
on the illusory fabric of space and time?
   

Come and figure me if you can without a change
to myself through your mensuration either in
my future afterwards or in your past, before!
   

And only being an atom can aptly explain,
why no matter how the time is, bitter or sweet
I am always filled with an emptiness inside!
   

So, yes an atom, that is me, tiny and charged,
with the mystery of creation etched in my heart!  

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