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Psychiatric Times
Einstein’s Happiest Moment
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- The poem juxtaposes Einstein's scientific insight with the poet's personal experience of love, using gravity as a metaphor.
- Love is depicted as a fundamental force, akin to gravity, emphasizing its profound impact on human experience.
"Einstein’s happiest moment occurred when he realized a falling man falling beside a falling apple could also be described as an apple and a man at rest..."
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—for Susanne
Einstein’s happiest moment
occurred when he realized
a falling man falling
beside a falling apple
could also be described
as an apple and a man at rest
while the world rises around them.
And my happiest moment
occurred when I realized
you were falling for me,
right down to the core, and the rest,
relatively speaking, has flown past
faster than the speed of light.
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Tender Fences.
