'O' Levels Physics

This succinctly put is the outcome of my daughter two years of  learning Physics for the 'O' Levels exams. Her school doesn't teach her such values of the subject. They are picked up outside the classroom. She was taught mainly by teachers with an engineering background. You need a more thoughtful approach to arrive here. The path did not begin in school but in our excellent NLB libraries.

Physics

Physics is a magician

Of my imagination

A box of many presents

Some which I can’t open at present

Sometimes it’s like fireworks

That dance to your hearts delight

Sometimes it’s like a gentle stream

Slowly turning darkness into light

At times I am tempted

To call it an imp

Who delights in torturing me

With its many whims

What was complex is simple

What looks right is wrong

Mathematics is a tool

But even that can be wrong

Yet at other times it’s delightful

As it opens up your mind

To what could be the treasures

In this universal mine

It has thoughts so deep

That they are deeper than the sea

When your mind can’t grasp

What you seem to see

So that’s why I call physics a present

One that that never ends

Because until you know everything

There’s still some treasure left 

Copyright © 2011 by May Kwek