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Two Poems

Finally, Physics is over! Actually, it was somewhat easier than I'd expected, and I suppose C.S. Lewis was right when he wrote in The Screwtape Letters, that we 'die and die, and then we're beyond death', 'the tooth ached and ached and then it was out'... I worried about it quite a bit, and then, yesterday I lost the mood to study, thinking it better to rest my mind and clear it a bit.

It paid off. The Sabbath is indeed one of God's most special gifts.

The exam paper actually had some diagrams printed in colour, and it was a really pleasant surprise as our Ministry of Education isn't renowned for its generous use of colour in textbooks and the like.

Anyway, today seemed to be a day of quite a bit of inspiration, and I wrote the following poems during two of the three Physics papers -- the first and the last to be exact.

Hypothetical (9:25 a.m.)

Curtains rise;

Insecure, I worry lest

Nothing learned can be

Applied to the test --

Panic drowns me.

To fear, and gain a little

Or not to fear, and set my mind --

Neighbour of the evanescent.

Ominousity raises my spirit's pace;

Deliver me with grace.

Seven Papers (3:30 p.m.)

Forever longing, for

Release from the

Ever winding road;

Ever hoping that

Drudgery may last

Only the night --

Morning has broken.

*It was originally titled 'Six Papers' in conjunction with the number of subjects whose exams are over, but I'd forgotten Bible Knowledge. It's now rectified to 'Seven Papers'.