For E

You never believed me when

I said I was sorry

Even when I held your broken heart

in my bloody hands.

When you saw my future

In the stars and planets

Did you know, could you see

Where we would be now?

The first night we spent together

And I held you to me, you whispered,

“don’t fall in love with me”

It was just another way I failed you.

I remember that bright, white hot,

terrible day, when we saw

our hearts laid bare on

the new life inside you

In the bright, bright sunshine

All my words were meaningless

One bond broken, another made

What was the difference?

We are bare photons of light

Speeding away, across the sky

quantum particles

entangled,

tethered by grief

A strange phenomenon

Spooky action at a distance.