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Its just a Random accidental thing,-

First-time appearance, and may soon be gone-

Or could it be perhaps a fountain spring,

Or water shed for unknown things to come?



Though nature rules with her consistent order,-

This Random Thing may venture to derail,-  

The maverick may gut the used to order,

Smash the accustomed  bounds and move the pale.



Oh Randomness,- Oh word so lightly used!

New independent sign not yet explained,

Let it not be with pointlessness confused,

But in the prodigy’s realm contained.



Or are we linked to all that does exist?-

Linked to each other and all else that is,

Ask scientists and the cosmologist,-

In networks wrought and twined in mysteries.



An open universe can entertain

Man’s deepest aspirations of wide scope,-

While closed a universe  makes hope in vain;

“To him belongs the word that can bring Hope!*



Behold Euclidean geometry!,

And the theorems of  Pytagoras,

But maybe  Random Thing may soon surpass

The wisdom of the ancient genii.



With closed a cosmos many are content,

And spurn thus countless possibilities,-

An open cosmos overrules the spent

And old exhausted views' vacuities.



The more we learn, the more is yet to learn

Of phenomena unknown hitherto,

It's hard to read, to scan and to discern,

Things wrapped in stellar dust or cosmic dew.



We are connected  very closely,

Linked to each other and all that exists

By bonds and links that reach infinity,-

Declare the stunned and awed  cosmologists.



Lo! our postulates are vague and brittle,-

We don’t expect much  and thus see so little.

Have faith then in the little Random Thing,

And leave it to the Lord what it will bring!



Permit this little Random Thing to stand,

And let it spread its slender limbs or move,-

It has been placed there by an unseen hand

That moves with unimaginable love.



Elizabeth Dandy



*Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.









The heart is the muscle  behind  the  fantastic!



(J. Wilskinson)