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Reference Frame

I watch you in your reference frame
 
making clocks
with beams of light,
 
taping candlesticks to rulers,
 
and other
crazy person
things
 
You whiz by in a boxcar
headed for
a little barn
 
In your hand,
a detonator and
the distance to your target
shrinks
 
I’ve watched you for just seconds,
but to a muon,
it’s been years
 
I listened to your batshit uncle
tell me
how I could cheat lightspeed
to keep up with you
 
The thing is--I don’t want to cheat--
 
I’m waiting for a boost,
for a grid of ancient letters
to get me from the lab
to you
 
I won’t be able to take much with me
that won’t change along the way,
 
just a few invariants from
frame to frame:
 
who I am,
how much I matter,
and what it looks like I
might do.
 
Until I catch up--
until then,
 
let
time
close in
let
space
dilate

Natalia M Guerrero