Sunday, May 5, 2024

Musing On The Multiverse and All The Possibilities That Could Be (Multitudes)


In other realities 

you are here with me.


In other realities

you liked flowers 

and didn’t see receiving them

as a waste 


In other realities

I was a snake 

and you were a vine. 

We twisted and twined 

around our own posts

two effervescent curls 


In other realities

We had a second chance

do it proper

do it right 


In other realities

I was the lips and tongue. 

You were the ears 

there was never something that was left unsaid

never something that was misunderstood 


In other realities

we sat in separation sections on the 70 bus

heading toward downtown Seattle

barely looking up

in your Virginia Mason scrubs 


In other realities

You were God

and I was the son  

You winced in pain 

as the knife was plunged 

into my chest

for no angel arrived to stop Abraham 




In other realities


We never met


This heart never broken


This poem never written


These pages blank 


These tears never wept