When I gleaned  little potions
from magical knowledge of life
my mind went back to days of school
when some subjects were an ordeal.
The booming voice of the teacher
extolling logic and cold facts
found by the discoverers, inventors and scientists
In your mind you already know
they hold the halo for setting the world aglow
with theories, patterns and serendipity.
Some are so beyond the ordinary realm
of mundane life.
 It confuses the right orientations of my mind.

Take Isaac Newton's Calculus
it makes no sense
even if I heard the explanations one hundred times.
Interestingly though
when I heard he despised his stepfather and mother
threatened to burn their house and them
you realize he had fury of a little lost boy.
It brings him few notches down
like the apple he saw lying on the ground
he actually sounds ho hum
and I do gravitate towards
the genius with more sympathy.

Einstein's relativity paradigm
speaks of his scientific wisdom
but little do people know
he resented the loss of spirit
and creativity
in rote learning
or his wholly childlike stubborn streak.
wonderful anecdotes that may have made my knowledge complete.
only if I had know that Einstein, Newton
were cast from the mold
that you and I are also chiseled from.
they were geniuses undoubtedly
yet the little elements
intimidating and unapproachable
tarred with their other human selves
would have made a difference.
Relatively speaking.
If only science spoke a language
intelligible
my right orientations would have shook the hands
waiting in the left.
Oh well for every right there's a left
and for every Einstein there is ummm, me.