Newton’s 2nd Law & Uncommon Sense
3 things:
1. the future’s unknown,
2. I’ll never know what it meant till it’s past,
neither its force nor mass, nor
3. the speed with which its die is cast
moving straight ahead in time,
if nothing’s pulling me aside
I’ll move this way forever
in an infinite line
if I’m moving neither straight nor true
I’ll know I’m being dragged by force
—in the short run this may not matter,
but still, as math & human nature shows,
swerve I will (more foolish the faster)
if I swerve from true toward lies I’m chasing after,
which I haven’t had the sense to master,
it may very well become disaster, but
I’ll never know till what comes after
Jim Culleny, © 8/8/16