Easter Egg Hunt

After hunting hard, they sometimes discover inhomogeneities assume uncoagulated quarks then deduce that dark matter doesn’t act that way When they finally glean five percent of the total heft and infer with chagrin that twenty-five percent hides and seventy percent lurks unimaginable unobservable, probably as energy They long for the sweet past of productive quandary when electromagnetism led to KNX quantum mechanics to laser pens nuclear force to street lights and inverse squares to Sputnik The prize eludes them now up in the sky with what they used to know They move from pivotal to puerile back to presage the future to regain the plain path but find only distinctions sharply drawn, it seems where seeking and finding never meet To the winner comes a trip to Stockholm to the victor who finds the egg The hider of eggs a bit embarrassed he led them on this far finds his young charges quaint like rotary telephones