Love Poem: How Fast Is That
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Written by: Chetta Achara

How Fast Is That

My love 
     for you
          happened 
like
     a photon
          strike,
ejecting 
     electrons 
          of desire
into my
     beating 
          heart,
flooding
     veins
          with fire.

Zepto-
     second*~
          a sliver
of time
     faster than 
          the blink
of my
     eye**;
          as power-
full as
     Cupid's
          arrow 
hitting
     its mark
          invisibly.


*The zeptosecond is a unit of time equal to 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 seconds, that is, 10?²¹ seconds. It's the smallest sliver of time yet measured and corresponds to the amount of time it takes for the electron to be ejected after the photon strike.

**On average the human blink lasts only a tenth of a second which is 100 milliseconds.