The Quantum Conundrum

Tabloid headlines exclaim, “The Future is Here!”

Quantum science discovery

Teleporting machine - Transfer matter between

New dimension unseen…‘til now



Astronaut at top of class, I was chosen to test

Trained for twelve months on the machine

Time of launch is drawing near, kiss my wife and leave my fears

Step into the teleporter



Strapped onto a steel bed, wires plugged into my head

Countdown sequence commence, “4, 3, 2, 1...”

Switch is thrown on the machine; all at once my atoms scream

Disassembled at the seams - I am undone



Traveling displaced matter floats where time and space are gone

What is wrong? This transportation should be seconds long



Molecules relocate from soul

Separate the whole

I remain fixed, bound



Somewhere snared in limbo I have lost my sense of self

Held between a strange dimension I assume is Hell



Molecules recombine and yet

I still find my soul

Stuck inside this Hell



Back inside the quantum lab, scientists scratch their heads

“He teleported but he’s dead.” (I'm dead!)

Little do these morons know, I’m still stuck here in limbo

Soul adrift a world unknown



Alone