Living Proof

I knew you for years before I knew you.

You’ve been with me since I was born. 

This whole time

I’ve loved you and feared you and carried you

As I will the rest of my life.

I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it’s all rather unbelievable

You were an imaginary friend for so long 

Before I literally made you up. 

My honey, my cheer, 

The person with whom I want to share all things I hold dear 

It is magical to know you and to have known you before you

You are wonderful and unreal

My new-new.

I am blessed to know this intimacy 

that overwhelms me.

Physics was once a man to me,

But no one teaches superimposition like a baby

History carefully twisted and folded down,

Block by block, link by link

into the most meaningful nothing

You are a quantum event

Silly of me not to see… 

I called it a biological clock

But that pit in my stomach was just me feeling the undeniable gravity

the potential energy

Of you.

You’ve existed forever as nothing

Now you are everything

It’s hard to explain but

I’m so lucky you helped me understand it.

Global Warning

Promises made to me are not promises at all, just noise that occurred in my presence

I am as human to you as another treasured tool, your iPhone perhaps

Maybe that’s why you think I should be extraordinarily grateful for any human right you afford me 

Maybe that’s why you are so incensed that I will not sit back quietly

You can keep punishing me

Didn’t anyone ever tell you that my skin won’t crack so easily? 

Satyagraha is my history.

We are still a chaotic mist teetering on the precipice of valid existence 

You can turn the heat up for a false bump with this sham recession 

(Should I die if I can’t earn a living?)

But it will be as short-lived as any pump and dump (P&D)

Global warming is melting away the pretense of “competing priorities”

In a poetic paradox 

We are slowly condensing into a cohesive sea of atomic affinity 

and direction 

Maybe not today 

But one day

I will be a tidal wave.

It’s already happening.