Alpenglow

You'll always remind me of mountains.

The most beautiful thing about Switzerland, you see, is

(That day by that long first-floor corridor,
"September is a long way away," you had said.)

that even though you are not with me

I'm somehow still

surrounded by you.

Alice in Wonderland, II

If olive oil is made of olives,

and baby oil is made of babies,

and cooking oil is made of cooking,

what is Earl Grey tea made of?

Event Horizon

Were you to take a rocket and hover
right at the edge of a black hole,
Your friend Penelope (thousands of miles away)
would never see you fall inside
because the light from you
would never reach her.

Hawking says that sometimes
a particle escapes
but that's pure speculation
since that can never be
observed by anyone.

But, isn't it then wonderful?
to find that just like nothing can outrun a photon,
and time moves in only one direction,
you always travel steadily, inexorably, inescapeably,
towards your very own unique future.

5 seconds

My father says a staircase
(taken in place of an elevator)
extends your life at every step
by a healthy 5 full seconds.

With those, my last 5 seconds,
were the one I loved the most near me
I would ask of him to kiss me
and drown an instant in eternity.

If instead it were my best friend
I would take those last few moments
to try once more to figure out
what color are those eyes of yours.

And if it were my brother
I would ask him just once more
to laugh out loud and giggle
like he did when he was twelve.

If my mother were beside me
I would take the full 5 seconds
to run my fingers through her hair

Or if it were my father
it would all end very simply
with just a quiet hug.

But if I were to be left alone
atop a snow-capped mountain
I would shout full out in victory
though my voice die in the snow

Because at every step in life, for each of its 5 seconds
I managed to surround myself
with the most truthful beauty.

Can't run and can't hide

Switzerland smells like cigarette smoke.

Friday

Today walking outside
I was bathed in pieces of ice-cream.

It was sunny and yet
half the sky had its black clouds falling white on my hair.

Beautiful, bi-color day.

Friend

(4P!)

Like minus E
equals grad Φ

and the circumference
is d times π,

completes the square, you see,
this you and I.