QUANTUM WILL

We are not just our body parts,
though some are essential, of course.
The tissue of our brains
or hearts is not
our animating force.

We sense a spirit,
wired through the physical
reality, that tells these organs
what to do, with
seamless functionality.

We don’t assign to them control
of what we feel or what we know.

Instead, we speak about
the soul that motivates
and runs the show.

There’s purpose down to DNA
and its experimentation, yet
we assert, to truth’s dismay,
it’s random recombination.

Even particles get to choose —
uncertainty’s how you’ll hear it, since
we think science should refuse to grant
that there may be spirit.

When we lose sight of unity,
the cosmos appears quite random.
We know matter is energy, but forget
they work in tandem.

Though we lose sight how they relate,
mind and body likewise equate.

James Ph. Kotsybar was chosen by NASA to be the first poet published to another planet, to be included in Hubble Space Telescope’s Mission Log and featured at Centaur Rocket’s 50th Anniversary Arts Challenge. In 2018, by invitation of the president of European Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters, he read his science poetry at the Euroscience Open Forum (Europe's largest interdisciplinary science biennial) before world renowned scientists, journalists and French Troubadours (Europe’s oldest literary institution) in their founding city, Toulouse, France, earning a standing return invitation. His poetry is currently in print in six countries, including India and Israel.