Sonnet of a lost duel
in which the astrophysicist
Stephen
Hawking (1942-2018)
is commemorated
The mighty mind was little more than mind
that
seemingly for black holes sought to speak.
The
unbroken man who could not help but break
was
manless most of life in humankind.
God’s
degradation was what he embraced
by
cynically explaining his creation.
By
claiming God too mortal his equation
was
QED’d for what God had laid waste.
‘A
man’s a man for all that’ each man shares,
though
bodiless. The stars were his domain,
and
so God made of him a superstar.
And
fame led him astray. So unawares
the
duel caught him out, his bearers plain
amazed
a voiceless bier weighs less by far.
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