GAME OF DICE

Genii live amongst us.
Very few:
Like Comets
That Enlighten or Endarken us
They streak across the Centuries …

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms
 Of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night. 

… Benjamin Labatut
Writes of them in
When We Cease to Understand the World:
Of Karl Schwarzschild
Who introduced us to Black Holes. 

Of Shinichi Mochizuki
And Alexander Gotherdieck:
Convincing us that Mathematical
Equations Underpin the Structure
 Of the Universe.

Of Erwin Schrödinger
And Werner Heisenberg:
Who established the Uncertainty Principal
As a fundamental dictum
 Of Quantum Mechanics.

Streaking across the Centuries
Decoding a Sacred Knowledge
That turns us toward Creatureliness
Or Spirit
In a Game of Dice.

(Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold)