Let's hear it for the neutrons

You surround me
Are in me
You have no charge
Yet you have mass

You have no mind
No brain
Yet you do things
I could not dream of doing

Am I not you?

Is not a leaf
Part of the tree?

Is not a tree
Part of a leaf?

If not then
Would we not miss
Trees without leaves?

I say that I am
Protons
Two up quarks
One down quark

I say that I am neutrons

Electrons

Cells

Chemistry

An organism

Conscious

Heart beating

Alive

Travelling around the sun

Subject to gravity

Paying my taxes

(well sort of)

Shopping at Tescos

And if I lit a match

And farted on it

Would anyone notice?

What would be at stake?

If a butterfly flaps its wings

in North Korea what could it cause?

Could I not cause more with a lit fart

No, the greater the act,

The more inconsequential

It is the smallest things we notice most

A smile

A touch

a bit of chocolate

And a neutron?

What of it?

If fired right

It caused a bomb to explode

Setting off a formula

seen by Einstein

Energy equals

mass times

a very big number

squared....

so the more mass,

The more energy...

This energy each of us holds inside

As if each of us were a walking bomb

With no detonator

We are too stable

to be upset by a mere neutron being fired into us..

So we have stability

And Energy

More than we could ever comprehend