Even at this remove, my love
for you heartens me, as I hope
yours for me heartens you.

Not absence making hearts fonder,
for you are not absent from me. You
exist both here and there at once.

Not certain how that works unless
like those entangled subatomic particles,
Spooky action at a distance.
Perhaps one day an Einstein of the heart
will explain the science to us.

It’s probably no accident that,
way back when, my field was
cardiology, before I abandoned it,
and though I didn’t know it then,
abandoned it for you.