meeting you was like brushing shoulders with god – once i turned around to catch a glimpse of you, i realized it would take a requested but granted miracle for us to intersect. they say in euclid geometry that two parallel lines will never touch despite the fact that they lie on the same plane going in the same direction. as long as that plane kept us interconnected, i thought it would be okay to let you speak words of resurrection to me. as long as the roses inside my chest continue to blossom and as long as you continue to help pluck off all the overgrowth of thorns, i thought it would be okay to let you see me for the beast that lies under my beauty. it feels like i’m getting closer to the truth, but further from the one that i’ve been looking for. the big picture looks a lot like manifest destiny collided with continental drift.
there is something called the bermuda triangle. this is not to be mistaken as a metaphor for an unrequited love triangle. a significant number of aircraft and ships have mysteriously vanished from thin air, so they have made a name specifically for the catastrophic triangular death sentence phenomenon that lies out in the north atlantic ocean. i think of myself as the one aircraft that plummeted into the waters early. despite how long i’ve been flying this aircraft, it’s the turbulence that puts me at risk for something like this. i didn’t know being one of many parallel lines would have a death sentence. mother nature is laughing at me as i sink, because i’ve forgotten how to swim.
i’ve become a part of the empty space on the plane filling in that void until you eventually collided with a perpendicular line changing your direction. parallel lines don’t get the satisfaction of ever crossing into each other. they are always at arms distance. close enough to touch, but not close enough to feel the ghost of their breath on our cheeks. we’ve acknowledged that the other exists, but not the fact that we could divert from our paths towards each other. loving you was a learning experience. it was learning that i shouldn't swim into deep waters, but i shouldn't stand in a three foot pool. this is why i want to know if there is such a thing as non-euclidian geometry, if there is hope for us parallel lines that will never collide with our soulmates.