Multiverse

Whatever the matter is now

In this universe dark harbors
Mass we can’t see—
Is there another you?
Another me? An antidote
To ennui? An alternate recipe
For ecstasy? An escape hatch
From the merely probable
Into what can never be?
A trap door back to a time
Before you & I settled
Our final score—open
The hour—your eyes are
Not my eyes—we circle
Each other—you are as near
As you appear—I am never
As far away as I wish—
We come together apart &
Adjoined forever moving
In concert against the grain
Of our domains—observing
Each other inside the kingdoms
We contain—each one a prisoner
Of perspective within our singular
Names—each—ever-shadowed
By ghosts of states we can’t reclaim--