Deviation Actions
Literature Text
One moment of action, and all futures shatter;
Outcomes collapse, and a future falls through.
One of two answers, a gamble on quanta -
Yet, left undecided, both answers ring true.
Making decisions will close off new avenues.
Making a choice will end infinite lives.
Existing in parallel, safe, unexamined;
But open the box, and just one path survives.
Is chance ever real? We make life by observing:
Existence is nothing if never perceived.
Reality falters before it is looked at:
Unwitnessed, untrusted, unseen, unbelieved.
Don't look at your future, for then you define it.
Don't open the box, for the atom decides.
In the superposition, your dreams are still possible,
Tangled in nightmares, all ticking inside.
He loves me (and doesn't) while I'm undecided
I'm not in a hurry, not watching the clocks.
I needn't risk asking - why shatter my daydreams?
I'm staying right here.
I won't open the box.
Somehow, that frivolously schoolgirlish little verse didn't quite fit with the rest of this yes-very-serious-science-philosophy poem.
But I couldn't just abandon it.
Thoughts about Not Asking - choosing to live in a daydream, to run the risk of not getting where you want to, because you're too afraid of failure.. Somehow, it got mixed up with quantum-mechanics imagery, and two poems happened at once; this, and Undecided. Two different rhyming patterns that didn't quite fit together, and a slightly different atmosphere for each one.
I'll admit, this is yet another venting exercise. Erin is being a silly bitch and not facing up to life, and she could really do with a smack in the face about now. Thankyou.
But a beautiful poem, if inspired in a less than positive manner. I loved it.