science explains the soul

"Do you know,"

she asked me once

with that crisp tone which means

she plans to impart some practical piece of science

in order to pin my flighty mind to earth,

"how we see things?

What we percieve in the way of colour

is actually a result of reflection,

rejection you might say.

It means that the object has absorbed

all the other colours but

for some reason, refuses entrance to this

and so it invites its way

into our eyes and we see the door

for example, as red.

"Even colours hate to be homeless." I comment.

This is not what she wanted 

and so she tries again

to inform and instruct

and with such information indicate my own distance

from the world of real, as she calls it.

"We see shapes in this way too.

Processing through lack as much as presence.

Occasionally a line exists not because it is there

but because there is nothing thrust between two somethings

I nodded.

She wanted to see if I understood.

"So, if you looked at him

you would see me."

I thought. 

"And love is a line because it appears 

to exist when there is really nothing between two someones."

She threw her hands in the air

and abandoned me 

to chocolates and black and white movies.

She did not hear me say-

"I thought love was a circle but it seems

the shortest distance between two disappointments-

the first is being alone

and the second is like it. only lonelier.

So i suppose a line is fitting."