Fifty-Five Years They Did Not Expect

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your mind built cathedrals from collapsing stars,
synaptic plasticity rewiring what the universe could mean—
you sat still, but your neurons kept dancing,
long-term potentiation firing through paralysis,
each thought a mirror neuron teaching us to see
what hides beyond the event horizon.
Your voice came electric through the phantom machine,
predictive coding reading the cosmos like braille,
fingers still, but your hippocampal consolidation
locked every revelation into our collective memory.
You grinned at the jokes we almost missed.

[Chorus]
You spoke the language of black holes singing,
turned your body's silence into light bending,
showed us how to love the unreachable—
your equations are the wedding vows
written in gravity itself.

[Verse 2]
Cortical remapping bloomed across your remaining synapses,
axonal branching finding new pathways when the old ones closed,
your wheelchair became a metaphor for movement itself,
theta waves pulsing through decades of discovery,
myelination accelerating your thoughts like photons
escaping toward the edge of everything knowable.
You made us feel the spin of spacetime,
turned interoception—your awareness of your own body's limits—
into the greatest atlas we possess.

[Chorus]
You spoke the language of black holes singing,
turned your body's silence into light bending,
showed us how to love the unreachable—
your equations are the wedding vows
written in gravity itself.

[Bridge]
Neurogenesis—you kept generating new worlds
even as your flesh grew quiet,
proprioception of the infinite,
reaching into the dark.

[Chorus]
You spoke the language of black holes singing,
turned your body's silence into light bending,
showed us how to love the unreachable—
your equations are the wedding vows
written in gravity itself.

[Outro]
Your black holes don't evaporate.
They sing still.

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**Word count: 285 words**