Science and Reality

Science and Reality

He told us: 
“The world is not made of atoms - 
But stories”
And if I’m being honest,
I felt
Affronted

As my mom told me:
“Hugo –
You are a scientist”

I am
Critical
Experimental
And pretty
Damn
Picky
About knowing facts but
He
Told
Us: 
“The world is not made of Atoms”

And though I
Can not physically understand
A
Reality
In which
That is true
I think a compromise
Would be better

Because that’s what they teach us.

And so, 
I don’t think our presenter
Denied
Science –
Rather – 
He complicated it.

Because the world of science
Is concrete in that –
Yes,
The world is composed of
Atoms –
But that’s
All they are.

We assign meaning
And value to specific
Configuration of atoms, and we
Give
Them
Names

But they will
Decay
And their connections will turn to
Dust

But as the speaker said –
It is only the stories
That
Live
Atoms
Are neither living or dead
But stories are more powerful
Than time
The only boundary we are
Slaves
To

They can
Unite countries and
Continents
And bring joy to those
In pain because – 
The world is not made up of atoms
Because
Neither are
We.

And I can also not accept
that I am only made of
Science 

Because I am a story too
And the rest of mine 

Has yet to be written

- Hugo