The Seeker


Son,
do you know what this is?

I dunno.

Well, it’s a pit
How could anything
be so perfect
as a plum pit?

Or any seed?

Think about pomegranates
and garnets, and grains of sand,
and numbers.

Think about the unchanging numbers
that make up this universe,
such as the mass of a proton,
the charge of an electron,
or the strength of gravity.

If there were the tiniest deviation
in the balance of  these
unchanging numbers,
then atoms would not hold together,
stars would not burn,
life would never have appeared.

No seeds
no stars
no you.

So, what do you think about that?

I dunno.   
  Can I go now?   


       
Perihelion, 2004