while ripples thunder out through time and space,
the universe has shuddered down the centuries,
but nothing will unsettle given grace.
We look into the void, detect the difference
where gravity, disrupted, ripples on.
Our understanding, stressed through awe and wonder,
can count again the knowledge that’s been won.
Yet wisdom is much more than calculation,
than observations grounded on this earth,
we reach out through a mystery that surrounds us,
toward the source that brought us all to birth.
After the detection of gravitational waves caused by the collision to two neutron stars.
Andrew Pratt 16/10/2017
Tune: INTERCESSOR
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