Quantum Entanglement

Quantum Entanglement

For Keith Nale who described his love for his wife Dana as a quantum entanglement, the most beautiful thing I've ever heard anyone say. And for Leonard who's mine.

So here we are,

one person since 1999,

no, since 1993.

But even before that

we were particles drifting closer and closer, slowly being drawn to the same places,

sometimes at different times

sometimes the same time, a few breaths away.

Same dentist, eye doctor,

same first concert, second concert,

music you loved being born at my

Jr.High.

Dancing closer and closer and closer to each other,

my heart heard yours calling from

all ends of the world.

Before I even knew you

every atom of me was waiting for you.

flitting from one person to the next

finding no satisfaction.

tasting desire,

tasting not quite love.

Till we shared the orchestra room,

two completely different people.

But from that moment,

my head rebelled,

resisting the particle of you,

feasting on hopeless conquest.

Never understanding that winning was not resisting, but accepting.

But the pull was too strong

and eventually I succumbed to

the desire, the peace, the certainty.

Finding love in stages like a

tapestry, bound together in colors

unimaginable by themselves

exquisite as a whole.

Then that kiss, you remember it,

heat exploded like a supernova

and melted the tapestry threads together. Forever.

No possibility of unraveling them.

Quantum entanglement.

only complete and utter destruction could ever try to separate them.

You could rip that tapestry to shreds,

but still those threads would not separate from each other.

Melted, torn, broken, cut, ripped,

still entangled.

Every assault on that beautiful piece of work is a torment of anguish and unspeakable agony.

What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.

Quantum entanglement.