Why Physicists Should Not Be Counselors.

she said
why does it hurt so bad
how does love go away
how am i still here hurting and hurting
when he said it would be here always

and he said
its all a matter of physics
the law of conservation you know
(if he thought his life mattered
he should have conserved his breath)
matter cannot be created
nor destroyed
you said you'd loved him forever
well then it was'nt created
would you say love was matter?

Of course it matters!
(she wasn't listening really
concentrating mainly on translating
her explosive hiccups into oxygen
becase somehow breaking your heart
does something terrible to your lungs)

he decided to ignore the anomaly
in the meaning of matter and proceed
"well if love is matter
it cannot be destroyed
therefore it must still exist-

Doyouthinkhestilllovesme?
This is just a phase.
I mean, everybody fights, he didn't really
mean it when he...

He cut her off
it was easy because she was crying
again and air was losing
against the salt slick of her face

"Well matter can change of course
look at radioactive decay
things are always changing
being lost, remade...
it seems
that when love reaches its half-life

half-life how do you have
a half-life of forever?

it depends of course
but it seems his half of the love
is gone (he kept talking over
the sounds that came like retching
as she ran out of tears and air)
when matter decays that left behind
is different, changed
and it is this concept which explains
the hurt bitterness and despair
because love , which is matter
cannot be created or destroyed.
hmm you could hypothesize that..

At which point she introduced Newtons law
in which his action produced a reaction
and her reaction sent him stumbling
down the stairs and out the door