Shut Up, You Can’t Calculate

We, words, our words, our shells
Do for us what glass does
For the light. Let us through,

Hold us like water holds
So many kinds of waves
In its own and shapes them,

While some of them shape it.
Hold us like the giant
Underground telescope

Catches at gravity
In the act of being
A rolling wave itself.

We’re like everything else—
Electromagnetic,
Nuclear weak or strong—

Only a sheaf of waves
Moving in equations.
If you want a theory

To unify them all,
You’ll need to calculate
Meanings as our own math.

If you want an answer
To how all waves are shaped
Watch how the answers pass.