A man fights his way into a small pizza joint
Scrapes together some scraps of change in his pocket
And purchases a slice of heaven to fill his stomach
Only 30 minute lunch breaks here
15 minutes left
enough time for one cigarette and one coffee
Just as burnt as he is
He takes a drag and thinks of the maybes
The could haves
The life he would be living
The possibilities
He takes a sip and thinks
What a waste his degree in quantum physics is
Now that he combines large numbers for a living
So far from his home on the other side of the earth
Thinks of his time as something lost
It’s only noon,
And this day is already done
He remembers his studying days
The words that would leap off the page
and dance in his head
Showing him a galaxy of ideas
A plethora of equations that can explain all the things his parents couldn’t
The cigarette burns down to the filter
The coffee’s cold
On the other side of the Earth
It is way past her bedtime
She is reading
She has no time for breaks
Her single mother can yell at her all she wants,
But she is unraveling the secrets of the universe
And they are all in her book
The clock says midnight
But time is irrelevant
Einstein taught her that
Now she is letting Hawking open her mind to the possibility
That anyone can travel through time if they had a black hole
She scribbles on a piece of paper until she makes one herself
Plays time traveler
Goes to the future
Walks around the metropolis that used to be her town
Sees the plaque that thanks her for her achievements in science
Plays quantum leaper
Jumps across an ocean to see her father
He tells her he’s proud of her determination
Wishes he didn’t have to do simple math for money
Because now he wants to talk about theories with her
To pick her oh so similar brain
She hops back to her room by opening her eyes
Water makes her vision blur
A wipe of the arm
She goes back to her desk
Opens another book
Opens her mind
To the possibilities
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