Waves of circumstance

Einstein relaxes on the beach, 

chatting with Marilyn Monroe.

The icons of their faces 

lit by the radiance of the sun.

Einstein pulls a bunch of flowers 

out of his hat 

and offers them to Marilyn.

She accepts, smiling and faintly blushing.

He rides the waves of circumstance 

and they retire to his beach hut,

where science and film history 

meet and make music 

to fill the limitless sky.

New equations are dreamt up that night, 

but Einstein lets them 

flit in and out of his consciousness,

without trying to capture them on paper. 

Solving the mysteries of the universe 

play second fiddle to 

what he is enjoying at hand.