World - Illusion, Idea?

Could it, perchance, be
That the old Indian dream
That life is but illusion is right?
How strange that modern physics,
Quantum mechanics,
String theories,
The latest observations
Have developed the idea
That in this huge
And almost empty space,
We call the Universe,
The smallest particles
Contained within the atom
Are only rhythmic waves
Of electro-magnetic manifestations,
Events and nothing else,
But cycles of energy in time.
Perhaps Berkeley was right,
That all existence is but idea,
Perception - nothing else.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2005 Alfred Charasz