Grace In Simplicity
by Michael Doyle

Despite apparent claims to the contrary
Following science can be quite extraordinary
Since Higgs Boson has taken its authority
New laws have provided new grace in all simplicity

The last 100 years began as an invitation
To which there wasn't an inkling of declination
No one avoided the front door of the rabbit hole
The race was on to challenge our human souls

Chased around to expand as discoveries were found
In the quest for tomorrows to which are now bound
We have come to grow in all ways an explore
Waiting to find our way to that 'something more'

The illuminating paths plunged from mountains to the deep
Sometimes laced with happiness; others in the tears we weep
The best part of the journey is the people that we've met
While exploring dark matter and energy without any regret

Suddenly, everything changed for the quarks in 1974
Striking the results with colors science would implore
How energy mysteriously disappears through some unknown fact
Unexpectedly, ending its script just short of the first act

Science's inspirations and innovations will not be rejected
While taking humanity to the places that are so unexpected
We danced the proper probabilities in this game of chance
As particle physics whispered in the key of its romance

Forty years of falsifiable evidence was argued in symmetry 
And then Higgs Boson unleashed its answer with great mystery
The objects of desire for higher dreams began to quietly speak
As if its keynote solutions leaned into the electroweak

Collectively, the walkers wondered if they were there yet
The cosmic accounting rolled the numbers without any regret
There in the birth-cry of the universe is a universal hum
Our conclusion is that the parts are greater than the sum 

While the truth deniers scratch each other's conscience
At last, cosmology has become a more reasoned science
While patches of heaven are slowed into place by gravity
The universe we know is pushed and pulled by dark energy

The questions continue to run as deep as mankind's sinning
Why didn't matter and antimatter annihilate at the beginning
The persistence of matter searches for some sorted order
Somewhere along Heaven and Hell's shared temporal borders

The universal law revealed is that grace is all simplicity
Confused as all is with its seeming infernal complexity
One puzzle follows another when taken to the highest height
The truest consequences find that dark fades into the light

As physics runs up against metaphysics in its sordid blur
That place where questions become answers as if they were
Begging for new explorations and channels of discovery
The eternal search for truth bring itself into rationality

And in the full explanation found, into satisfying simplicity
Life's pages turn toward resolving even the deepest mystery
And the world itself is a thing filled with wonderful grace
It waits for us filled with God's beauty and truth to embrace

(c) April 23, 2024   Michael Doyle
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