Gravity's Rainbow Poem by Vincent S. Coster

For Dani Howard



I am gravity's rainbow

I am music where there is no need

And song where there is no want of it



I am striking as a clock strikes

And falling- catching- I cry out

Gravity is striking in its own rate



The pull and push and twist-

Formed by mass twisting time

Space and us- you and I- together



Making words and music too

With only the deft touch

I am gravity's rainbow



Etched on the minds of

Those who pick me up and holding me-

Take me wherever they go



I am your friend and comforter

Annoying you and delighting you

And all I am?

Just words, and sounds

And they are the most powerful tools

We have