20150929 (certainties)

There was a time Aristotle 

Knew rocks without getting 

Out of his armchair Ari declared

Of course heavier rocks fall faster

Everybody knows let's move on 

To metaphysics which for him

Had nothing to do with 

Magical spiritual stuff so

Commonly misconstrued these days

Meta meant simply after the

Physics need I explain further

But he was wrong wrong as rain 

Not on the plain had he stayed

In his divan thought a tad longer

As I've writ before he could

Have nailed the laurels become

Papa scientiae two thousand

Years earlier instead of being

Vilified as an authoritarian 

Deliberator how much prettier

We'd all be sitting now except

For poor Galileo Galilei who'd 

Have had to wait for a Dutch 

Lenstube moons of Jupiter to 

Make him famous now with the

Gieger-Marsden demonstration

That rocks are mostly empty space

It would appear certainties 

Nowadays are notoriously brief 

I'd be wary of declaring 

Everlasting love based on seas 

Drying up heavens ceasing 

To be should I prove false to thee 

Prudential take care we can't be

Certain of anything anywhere

About rocks anymore




c. J.S.Manista, 2015