String theory

Everyone else is a cardboard cut-out - 

their intimidatory iterations now fail.

An invisible draw-string gathers

our heart-strings ever closer.

In my innermost places you fit - 

distances most intimate.

Infinite intimate iterations - 

my-into-mate, mate-into-me. Ha!

Our intimacy in its infancy, yet - 

our heart-strings entwine intimately,

through intermittent iterations - 

strung forth into infinite horizons.

© Jennifer Phillips

Inspired by a quote from Charlotte Brontë in "Jane Eyre":

“Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?"

I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full.

"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land, come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.”

And of course, String Theory itself:

In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. 

More, see Wikipedia.