What is more beautiful than a flowering field,

Yet uglier than cold dead bones?

What is noisier than an assembly line,

Yet makes the softest tones?

What is darker than the deepest cave,

Yet brighter than the sun?

What is lighter than the clouds above,

Yet can weigh on one a ton?

What is vaster than the universe,

Yet smaller than a quark?

What is more crammed than a metropolis,

Yet like the tundra, stark?

What is shallow as a puddle,

Yet deeper than the sea?

What is more structured than a diamond,

Yet more abstract than theory?

What is all this,

Everything and more?

Have you not heard,

Of a mind before?