Obverse
Jan 24 2021
Like love and loss
belief and doubt
are inextricable.
In quantum physics
this would be action at a distance,
the entanglement of atoms
that cannot act
except as one.
In electricity
the positive and negative.
Which you'd think would be zero sum
and cancel out.
But without which
the current falters, power dies,
the live wire
never fires-off sparks.
No faith is immaculate
no love inviolable.
Forbidden thoughts
afflict the pious,
betrayal and loss
are ever possible.
The ambivalence
of human emotion,
as inscrutable as quantum physics
but far less quantifiable.
And as binary
as the obverse sides of the same coin,
facing away
but never apart.
Ineffable love
tempered by loss,
the mystery of belief
flirting with apostasy.
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