Lessons

I turn on my

Particle accelerators

To learn of life lessons

I try to teach me

To try to reach me

I constantly smash my ideas

To atoms

To understand

My concepts of reality

To test if me and you

Are real

If what we have is true

If what we feel is real

In surfing the waves

Of perception

Magnetic lines of force

Change what I think I know

Leads me in patterns

Where I don't want to go

Leaving me only traces

Upon our two faces of truth

I am constantly in flux

Rewriting lines upon my

Heart's emulsion plates

As every layer of truth

Peeled back

Reveals something new

Of quantum fate

Of family

Of love and hate

Of you

Rewriting my perceptions

Of what is true

That all is relative

In the lessons of life

Especially

When it comes to you

To test if me and you

Are real

If what we have is true

If what we feel is real

In the science of us

It's worth flicking the switch

To turn on my

Particle accelerators

To learn of life lessons

You try to teach me

To try to reach me

You constantly smash my ideas

To atoms

To understand

Your concepts of reality

To test if me and you

Are real

If what we have is true

If what we feel is real

If what we feel is real

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