I ripple soft across the sea
Boundless, flowing, wild, and free.
A wave that bends, expands, fades —
A form unseen in shifting shades.
I am the particle sharp and clear,
A single point that draws you near.
My motion cuts a fleeting line,
A path through space, a mark in time.
Yet these are names we cast to hold,
Old frames for truths too vast to mold.
A realm too strange for thought to bind,
Where light escapes and meaning unwinds.
Wave or particle, both and none,
A cosmic dance, a paradox spun.
In quantum depths, the riddle glows,
Where wonder lingers and nature knows.
From the revised manuscript of An Introduction to Scientism Poetry. Original line and stanza breaks retained.