Word On The Street: Volume 1

A poem series built from words submitted by CNS Students

Written by: Sravya Gullapalli and Aleeza Mazhar 

Illustration by Sravya Gullapalli

A galaxy of stars twinkle sporadically,

Like electrical signals firing between synapses

Strangely in equilibrium with another.

They form a highly entropic constellation, 

Yet there is oddly order to the randomness

And a fabric of harmony assembles.

At the molecular level,

Relationships build a community that

Wire into an ecosystem;

The metabolism of one fuels the metabolism of another.

The equation teeters between different charges,

Creating a zwitterion of balance, 

As a reaction only exists when both disorder and algorithm meet.

Those different charges and stars unite

In a nucleus where together, they transcribe ideas.

We speak in two languages:

The genetic sequence that created us, 

And the digital code we create.