RED SHIFT
blue shift
red shift
we are moving towards
now moving away
from each other
I can see you
from my point of vantage
our
realities just
a little off, between
us just
a smidgen of difference
out of synch
as we are
I can still catch a
glimpse of a white hot streak
of a shock of silver hair
that will
outlive the ages
shocked by the realization
that you are about
to midwife yourself
into the birth
of a brilliant idea
leaving, if space and time
were a train with carriages
and track
and station
your precursors who got it
so wrong
stuck on the platform
eclipsed
forever
but
you can help them, assure
them, mitigate the error,
when you
stick them on
your torch beam, jujitsu their
brains into
fully understanding
my forever is
not your
forever
no forever is
the same
if forever were a river
once, twice,
try
to get your
head around it, you
can never
step into it
step
out of it
you are in that river, are
that river
time for
you to realize how these
rivers (so
many rivers)
run
so fluently
blue shift
red shift
you came I came
we saw we
(almost)
intersected
and as
things do, gaining, losing
connected, disconnecting
we watch
waves lengthen
were tears
departure, arrival
laughter
inside out by now
you know
the spectrum
bitter irony
in the colours warming
fatal
shift in
the palette
simply, it must be
said,
things disappear
