The Law of Conversation or the Greed in Matter?
The oldest rock is not omniscient,
but he’s witnessed Earth deal a new lineup of cards
each day the last four billion years.
He’s watched flora and fauna
ravage each other into extinction while
updating the list of species crowned ‘champion’.
When I was seventeen I told
my ex girlfriend she was radiant:
not because her cheeks were embers
but because her laughter unearthed Argon from her esophagus.
I held out Potassium 40 and I welcomed
decay just to relish in the chemical reaction.
Radioactive dating is an inverse relationship:
I swallowed her half lives. Argon crystallized
but had nothing left to bind to, then detached.
The oldest rock is not omniscient,
but he’s married to Earth’s entropy. He told me
to forget what I knew of chemistry.