Planet Posidonia. Photo by Robert Rath from over here at Robert’s website.
This morning I spotted an ad for ‘Quantum Jumping’, which is a meditation program of some sort. I was particularly taken with the line ‘…on an inter-dimensional quest for a better you…’.
What I enjoyed more, however, was Skepacabra’s sceptical take on it; some of the comments are brilliant. (But be prepared to fall into a time warp if you start to read them.)
Today’s poem is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to this pseudo-scientific gift-wrapping and online hawking (sorry!) of our mental capabilities.
That quantum leap
I want to jump between universes
on an inter-dimensional quest for a better me,
with a multi-dimensional scream
I grip white-knuckle-tightly to the silver mental strands
that keep me connected to here, now,
and when I land with my spine intact
(in spite of subjective sneakers weighted down by doubt)
and lugging a backpack of questions
I will wander, amazed,
through the unfamiliar maze of familiar, meet
my past, other-present, or future self
and ask for advice on how to write better poems
and songs, how to play the piano like a pro,
how to be the best version of me
and finally ask:
why have you never jumped into my universe?
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