Minding Time Poem by Sari Mavi

Today we know things are quite a bit more chaotic than earlier thinkers, including
Plato, let on:
'We live in a chaosmos, not a perfect cosmos;
an open spiral not a closed circle.'

The orbital periods of the planets
shift ever so slightly as the years pass,
and the 'fixed' stars are actually not fixed at all.

Our universe is very strange, and measuring time is no easy matter.
Everything is spinning around everything else.

Time is then not a moving image of eternal perfection; rather, time is what happens
when divinity loses its balance and gets dizzy.

But don't worry, there is nowhere to
fall over in the infinite expanses of space.