Quantum Physicist Falls in Love With a Philosopher Ollie Babovic

Quantum Physicist Falls in Love With a Philosopher

By Ollie Babovic

Listen. Millions of years ago, the first star was born and already my body had found yours in the dark.

(Almost a millennium later, the first humans were witnessing something they didn’t even have a word for, and they named it God because they didn’t know it was us.)

Listen you touch me and I feather beneath your hands, listen - your name is my favorite hymn.

You tell me that you don’t believe in evil - only hate, but for billions of years we have slaughtered our impulses and called it evolution. Darling, the devil dressed in silk is still the devil.

Listen, If you look at anything on a small enough scale those cells that you see will have no pattern.

(The universe is a city of empty houses, but here’s a secret - I know how to fill them.)

It goes like this you speak, and I am your echo. In the way that life begins near water, so I begin near you.

Listen. Do not be afraid of the storm. It is just a baptism.