Science of the Heart

The eyes of the mind seek out logic and reason with little to say about music or art we need not portray the slow change of a season apart from a graph or a temperature chart. For such abstract magic we don't have a place irrational mysteries gives us no pause we much prefer order: the planets in space in orbits according to Sir Isaac's laws. The science of passion - the passion for science eclipses predicted by three laws of motion it seems that your artists are all in defiance preferring to cling to subjective emotion. My dear science, you are too confined By fences of rules, by orderly lines! Do you never dare to break barriers To discover a beauty undefined? The wild genius of Van Gogh and Picasso The melancholy majesty in Dickinson and Poe The transcendent music of Mozart and Beethoven Pavlova and Nijinsky's sublime stately flow Are not to be found in a formula They are not recipes to dissect and duplicate But are born from the glory of the intuitive Of talents unique and intricate How do you classify wonder? What you dismiss and pick apart Makes my soul bleed and my senses sing I call the science of the heart. 11/12/21 Do It (Duets) contest Sponsor: James Edward Lee Sr