Atoms can be seeds

 Love is structured into life via the formidable super-structure of politics, economy, gender, and race that manipulate perceptions of reality.  It’s like a second spacesuit atop the spacesuit of the flesh.  A ‘virtual reality’ that distorts and clips what we see when looking at another.   We carry the DNA of these structures in the choices we select moving forward into time. And when oblivious or careless our actions encode and recode the virtual into our present reality.   Even in the intimate spheres - private tenderness and public affections - there is room to practice imperialism, commodification, hatred.  The consequences of recklessness are to love someone poorly, incompletely, unhealthily.  Killing someone as you hold them tight.