Poem "Not to be, to Be!", Carlos Afonso

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Not to be, to Be!

An ice cube
drifting
in boiling water
trying to keep
his solid state.

How long
will he manage?

Long enough
to find
and merge with
another ice cube?!
(But then
they would be
two ice cubes
with the same problem,
which could challenge
their common bound.)

Or,
will
he
slowly
lose
his
strength
and
softly
melt
to
liquid...
state?

Or,
will he SUDDENLY be defeated and sublimate?!
... to g a s e o u s state.

Well,
and why not
change his will
and Naturally go
over all transition phases
he finds in his Way,
trying, learning, and enjoying
each phase transition
and each state?!

(This way he could learn
each phase transition has an inverse one,
and even discover
there is a fourth state.)

Then he could better decide
in what state he wants to be
and which transition(s) to go by!

And even if
at some point
he decides
and comes to be
an ice cube again
he will be more solid than he was before
because he will be an ice cube
who, having experienced all the states,
has chosen to be in the solid one.

"To be, or not to be?"
Not to be, to Be!

Carlos Afonso
(Oxford, 12 July 2010)

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This poem is an evident extension of my previous poem "An ice cube" (http://desentropiando.blogspot.com/2010/07/poem-ice-cube-carlos-afonso.html).