What is the nature of reality,
what is the nature of reality
beyond this flesh realm
of suffering and fleeting beauty
between moments of terror and fear?

Phobos and Deimos,
I speak not only of the acts of the stateless
but those with flags in their uniforms
and neat suits as flags fly in the wind,
worshipped by those poisoned by religion,
of caste, race, language
and Bismarck's words.
Eisen und Blud.

What do the bosons and fermions mean beside this?
Everything and nothing. The quarks
are a greater truth compared
to the bodies of the massacred innocents;
 enduring and known
           
under other names
to civilizations in M32 and M33
or to our sentient scions
living in the year 9 000 000 000 CE.
           
No one remembers the names of those who lie
in Neolithic mass graves; the names of the couple
without their lower bodies,
excavated from Bronze Age Hissarlik.
           
Yet to us, the fleeting truth of the macroworld
is more important than the the
underlying structures of the universe.
The permanent loses.

17.10.2009