Syntropy

Frozen silence and blue breath
Disrobe the heavy coats of winter
Warm in the copper heat of the fire
And the soft glow of sweet company

The joy of love, music and thought
The lively dance of ideas and words 
The lyrical play of laughter and sighs
Sleepy sounds of comfort and home

Steeped in love’s light 
Imbued with hope and affection
Good will and generosity
Friendship’s dulcet lullaby sings

All present gather round
Enter in, adding verse, rhythm and rhyme 
Rounding out the sound
With each heart’s tranquil beat

A fusion of harmony and dissonance
Propelling itself toward a unified goal
Of symbiosis 
And syntropy

Syntropy: in psychology, is a wholesome association with others (from the Greek syn - together and tropos tendency). Though it is used in psychology, the term was first coined by mathematician Luigi Fantappiè in 1941 in order to describe the mathematical properties of the advanced waves solution of the Klein-Gordon equation which unites Quantum Mechanics with Special Relativity. Syntropy, in contradistinction to entropy, is “the tendency towards energy concentration, order, organization and life.” It is an “anti-entropy.” This is the idea of order underlying chaos. 

In a sense, friendship is the beautiful thing that happens when chaos (diversity) gives itself to something greater than what it is in isolation. Diversity is only itself in relation to another. It needs something to compare it to for it to be seen. When diversity is viewed in contrast, as if only uniformity were valued, the beauty can be lost, but when it bows to a “tendency toward … concentration,” or as in the poem below: “disrobe(s) the heavy coats of winter,” and "warms in the copper heat of the fire," the change occurs. The underlying powers of syntropy work to bring order and life. Friendships from diverse peoples form.

It is as if God’s plan works itself out to bring all creation unto Himself.