A research in love that wasn't published

On her last birthday

I gifted her atoms

I had trained to self-assemble

into molecules forming letters

of her tongue-twisting name

every time she had her

amazed gaze fixed at them.

As I watched her ,moved,

savouring a view of my love for her

I was relieved to see my sweetheart

and my equally sweet molecules

finally reaching out to each other

or atleast trying to.

But not long after she begged me

to enjoy the beauty in the

little things in life-

I asked her then to peer through

the eyepiece of my microscope

and as we settled down to

re-examine the universe

our cheeks touched and we smiled

in hope maybe now we would get to

see the world through the same pair of lenses.

But when I felt I made a discovery

I raised my head to find no one and

I was once more alone in my own epiphany.