Ira Jane Abbott

We’ve all heard of parallel universes.
Theoretically, they exist.
Theoretically, there’s another universe where
It’s all the same, but slightly different.
You didn’t move that one time when you were 5,
You said yes to the boy across the street who asked you out.
You dyed your hair,
You told someone the truth.
Little things,
Small, seemingly unimportant decisions,
a decision that was the drop of water
in the center of a very large ripple effect.
We’ve all heard of parallel universes,
things some dream of at night,
things some study passionately.
But what if
these theoretical universes,
branches and extensions of our own,
somehow collided with our version of the real world?