Song of the Electron

Positive energy flies in the air
To meet the negative force
That defies gravity.
Floating above the surface
Without wings to flap or engine
To create energy, the source
Will remain endlessly
Suspended without sound or strings.

Opposites attract, and in that
The spell is broken. Positive to positive
Cannot be sustained. Negative to negative
Repels the same, and so the gravity
Of the situation is lightened.
What is drawn to each other becomes
The magic creating the force
That fills the space in the middle.

No weight.. freed from the ties that bind
Us to earth and pull us down
To an existence in constant battle
With the speed of the planet.
We remain on course around our sun
Never faltering, our journey now begun
The trajectory set, all choices gone
We carry on tied as one to inevitability.

Still a freedom lies within.
The north at one end, the south
Lying opposite. All in between drawn
With magnetism to sit slightly
Over and above the mediocrity
Of an endless existence. Plodding on
Resigned to an earthbound future,
But flying quietly triumphant on the hidden waves.