J.O. Morgan
Two Comparisons
Two Comparisons
- I -
It's akin to a Venn diagram, where one circle is me
the other her, though that minor overlap is not
what we share, it represents our differences
colliding; the aspects of her world I must accept
in order to know her; the oddities of me she
must put up with just for us to speak. For if
we cannot manage even this then our circles
will un-lap, will be forced apart, to become again
two distinct circles, untouching and unknowable.
- II -
Similarly, the convergence of electron clouds;
those speeding near weightless particles that
hold mostly to their own set course, are content,
despite ionic tendencies to join, to make up the loss;
but, in joining, so they are changed, so they are
no longer themselves; their orbitals: shifted,
intermingled, made to flow around this
strange new composite, which, even in its fresh
stability, can still be broken, split into two
distinct bodies, adrift once more in the mix,
but active, quietly eager to make up the loss.