Swell, how we make it work, the sacrifices and pleas.
We are like a compartmentalized train,
The engine making us travel through
The scenery and the tunnels,
Day and night, the long road to a place
Far far away, embracing the sun and the moon
And the ever-blurring dusk,
Which makes you return home,
No longer churning Vitamin D,
Or getting roasted under the sun.
Only selenophilia, the moon
As naked as Lady Godiva’s buttock cheeks,
And I like peeping Tom,
Looking through trespassing clouds,
Earning my own sobriquet,
Becoming, Thomas the lunatic,
Madder than an Einstein’s hair-do.
Love and a hamster, the hum of a tune,
Organic in so many ways,
Turning into a guinea pig in bed.
The perfect experiment,
The hypothesis, a virgin man is in bed,
And the conclusion he becomes.
Consummation is as much man
As woman, and now, they will become statisticians,
Gathering counts, a hypothesis that gets proven
Over and over, in the same sequence;
– The maddening, love is,
And the shining, it combusts to.
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Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems.
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