Few mortals, in this hurried time
and age,
take time to listen to the timeless
ticking
of the Clock that runs the whole
universe
and measures time in aeons
and lightyears.
Fewer still are those who clock
the speed
of swift neutrons in billionths
of a second
just to pick the fruit of supreme
human will
from the tree of knowledge of good
and evil!
few mortals, in this hurried
time and age,
take time to listen to the
timeless ticking
of the clock that runs the
whole universe,
that measures time in aeons
and lightyears;
fewer still are those who
clock the speed
of swift neutrons in billionths
of a second
just to pick the fruit of supreme
human will
from the tree of knowledge
of good and evil !
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