Feynman, physicist and.. poet?

[logicalworld]

I stumbled across this gem in a collection of his letters. It isn't quite a poem in the conventional sense, but I like it anyway, especially the ending couplet.

I stand at the seashore,
alone, and start to think...
There are the rushing waves...
Mountains... of molecules,
each stupidly minding its own business...
trillions apart...
yet forming white surf in unison.
Ages on ages...
before any eyes could see...
year after year thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?...
on a dead planet,
with no life to entertain.
Never at rest...
tortured by energy
wasted prodigiously by the sun...
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.
Deep in the sea, all molecules
repeat the patterns of one another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves...
And a new dance starts.
Growing in size and complexity...
living things,
masses of atoms, DNA, protein...
Dancing a pattern ever more intricate.
Out of the cradle unto dry land...
Here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness...
matter with curiousity.
Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering
I...
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe.

-Richard P. Feynman
(Perfectly Reasonable Deviations)