A sickness spreads,
seeking an immunity.
Only then
can it become
a new thing.
Solving for solutions.
Opening boxes
we can’t close.
Life is one of those.
Is this
a planet,
or a Petri dish?
Everything here
is an experiment.
Rough hypothesis,
synthesis,
ends without incident.
Makes the endeavor
a failure,
no expression.
No observable change,
until the experimenter
looks in the mirror
and sees something strange.
Some God-like image
in the frame.
Unknown whether side effects
remain,
or can the curse
be reversed?
Can the world
be reclaimed?
Can the phenomenon
be un-observed?
Once we learn,
can the expansion
of the universe
be curbed?
Ideas spread
along synaptic pathways.
Building new connections,
new wormholes
in reality.
Here to there
seems such a leap
this side of the light.
The photons
only just hitting the eye.
The future unobserved
and yet,
it thrives.
Sicknesses are cured,
until they infect the mind,
then they become ideas,
and ideas never die.
HG – 2022
