Superconducting Supercolliders

Strange Attractor

It is strange to me that I cannot leave
a surface real but widely unperceived.
n-dimensioned space, vectors won't escape;
I can try to change, attractors stay the same.

And so I remain:
Glasses case, knowledge base,
mental states mapped in phase
where motive gets erased.
Get my mind back on straight:
Interface (don't erase)
the things I can't replace.
Displaced, disgraced,
out of place, in your face,
but I won't win this race;
Damn, your pull is strong,
my strange attractor.

If I get away from this mental maze
I am afraid that I'll be back this way.
Fixed point, map sink,
makes it hard to think I can still break free;
attractors wait for me.

And the release is brief:
Turn the page, step onstage:
fractal rage makes a cage
that can't be disengaged.
Don't reveal your age, you're in range
(that won't change attractors turning strange.)
Define domain and range,
disengage, rearrange:
I won't escape this race,
but you knew that all along,
didn't you, my strange attractor?

I can't complete what I can't conceive;
attempts unique, but failing by degrees.
I can make a play, try to get away.
I can throw the dice, sacrifice my life,
is that enough?

Turn the page, step onstage:
fractal rage makes a cage
that can't be disengaged.
Get my mind back on straight:
Interface (don't erase)
the things I can't replace.
Displaced, disgraced,
out of place, in your face,
but I won't win this race;
Damn, your pull is strong,
and baby, you define where I belong.
I bet you knew! You knew that all along,
my strange attractor.