Concerning Ideas and Being (poem)

An energy field of infinite scale

dimensions contingent and meaningless

pass gluons and quarks to Higgs loops

virtually spoofing countless hadrons;

energy acting upon energy-

whirlpools formed molecules to be

and become sentient suits

Independent thoughts off an endless branch

pure energy; whatever it is, 

across an expanse of universes

energized though free

protons and neutrons you and me

Iive in God’s energetic stream  

with days and years of acting solid

-massless in two dimensions

solid in three

Where a big bang cooled energy too

Acting like mass (M=E/c2)

entangled in a Higgs field

frozen energy viewed from within

it being like an unknowable grail

from an imponderable point

of infinite energy in one static place

in an infinite virtual cloud

Speaking of particle waves

as a kind of serious lark

with dead grim power;

Infinite and indefinable

enshrouding a Universal cloud of unknowing

Thus it is that mankind enjoys the story

of mass separated as ape-kind 

north-south by the ocean spilling

into a Mediterranean basin evolving

farther than tropical fish with fins

caught in tidal pools adapting

to live a little and walk to water

Safely amphibs moved farther

to warmth ashore; solar energy

their distant ancestors changed

adapting to the north slope savanna

some returning to East Africa

becoming sapiens in time

after some earlier adapted Neanderthals

returned north again, and northeast

Stories of billions of years 

reduced to millions and thousands

summarized in sentient script

of so much done in six days

an energy field, an infinite line

shaped to evolving waves and Universe

as a preference of Being, the sentients’

thoughts stand alone, apart from will;

that source of energy

a word to begin

the cascade of questions

concerning spacetime and being

emptiness and energy,

ideas and dreaming.