Two roads diverged in a wood,
And I - I wanted to take them both.
Oh, how I wished that I could
Go both ways - towards both North and South.
Why can't I be like an atom,
Able to travel both ways?
I am a collapsed wave function
Of stiffened, stunned x-rays.
If only time did not exist
With its confining strings
Tangled around my bloodied wrist
Like a malevolent jinx!
I wish to be like a particle
Living as a wave,
In a superposition of ideas and states,
Paths yet unknown to brave.