If you’re reading this, it’s too late by Muthoni Kinyanjui

Published in Qwani 02

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the wave function:

a particle in an indeterminate state can be brought into a definite one by interacting with something in its environment.

like an observer ,

it would be prettier to think of us as entangled particles.

that we, since the beginning, were hurtling through time and space

until we finally laid our eyes on each other

and the universe let out a sigh of relief,

but that would be wishful for someone I barely know

so I'll take the wave function:

that until the moment we met you’d just been,

and after, your world was split in two.

I may never mean anything to you but at least I know I made a cosmic impact,

that there'll always be you before and you after

if you’re reading this it’s too late

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Mũthoni is a multi-disciplinary artist, a yearner and a lover whose practice is a result of working with and through grief and love in an attempt to make sense of existence and exist comfortably.

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Email: mkkinyanjui125@gmail.com

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Photo by Steve A Johnson