Aristotle
taught that rocks will fall
because
down is where they belong,
His
theory was approved by all
as
incontrovertibly strong.
A
dropped rock must fall to the earth.
We
later learned that the moon’s a rock
that
stays in its orbit, secure.
When
Armstrong and Aldrin took a walk
upon
its desolate contour,
a
dropped rock would hit lunar dirt.
Newton’s
the source of this rock fact,
but
hold the phone! That’s not the end.
Einstein
revealed what Newton lacked:
Falling's
caused by a space-time bend.
A
dropped rock follows the curve.
Thus
we know, self-evident fact
is
waiting yet to be exposed
as
less than perfectly exact
by
better truth yet undisclosed.
A
dropped fact should lose its worth.
Whenever
it’s election season,
with
speakers waxing eloquent,
any
who advance the reason,
"It's
simple and self-evident,”
have
dropped no more than careless words.
Copyright ©2018, Paul H.
Harder II
This poem is licensed under a
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BY-NC-ND 4.0 License.
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