What is Entropy?

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WHAT IS ENTROPY?

What is Entropy?
Can you see it, is it big or small?
What does it taste like?
Can you feel it, smell it, hear it?
Is it loud or soft?
Spicy, putrid or perfumed?

Entropy is the X-factor,  (a thermodynamic wart)
(Unseen) Unknown, yet all around us.
Entropy has no size or shape
Or colour or mass
And yet it is infinite.
Soulless, formless, boundless.

Entropy is a melted snowflake,
A ripple in a pond.
Entropy is a sand dune
Ever-changing
Disorder to disorder
With the blowing of the wind.

Entropy is pent-up fury
Like a dam about to burst
Lying in wait to lay waste
Entropy is spawned by earthquakes
Splitting and tearing the earth
From fault lines fraught with stress

Entropy is the shattered
Tail-light, fragments of polymer
Scattered across a junction.
Entropy is the bitterness
That remains of a marriage
Torn apart by jealousy and mistrust

Entropy is what is left
When the suicide bomber has
Blown himself and fifty others
To oblivion and a billion
Bloody pieces

Entropy is chaos.

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