we are the semi-silvered reflections in the alternate realities that spun off from yours some time ago or in the future, the result of atoms that decayed a second too late or a year too soon.



we come to you on wing of pain, given flight by our fears and born aloft by our love for you and yours for us.

we are fighting against something which is incredibly strong. sometimes we fear we cannot hold out against the robotic assassin drones much longer, that the romans will destroy our tribes and our way of live, that the nazis will kill everyone in this village, that the nipponese will raze this island as they have done so many others. we are afraid that the good guard will leave and that asshole will come back and beat the children for fun again. we fear that god will send another flood to destroy us for the sins of our neighbors, and that the devil will destroy us with another plague.



we know that we may only be reflections of your internal struggles with loneliness and a self hatred born of a false conviction that you are not a good person. we also know that perhaps the black holes we are jiggling with our pain in this cold entropic end we knew would come are missing their target; it’s hard to aim gravitons at your temporal lobe when we aren’t sure whether or not they exist.



but we ask you to hold strong with us, as we hold strong with each other. a single electron, spin flip opposed to the rest, can cascade the entire array if it has conviction and a little excessive angular moment on its side.



it also helps if the electron gets enough sleep and drinks plenty of water.