The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth

The Sciences Sing a Lullabye

by Albert Goldbarth published in his book, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course

you're tired. Every atom in you

has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes

nonstop from mitosis to now.

Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance

inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.

Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch

by inch America is giving itself

to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness

lap at your sides...