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A quiet, Broadway-style ballad of science and remembrance.

Marie Curie returns to her lab alone after Pierre’s death—haunted by silence, steadied by ritual, and finally reconciled with the darkness her work requires.

From the original chamber musical Chaos and Code.
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Not Afraid of the Dark

It’s darker than I remember,
So dark I can't begin.
Silence where your laughter was—
Let me breathe it in.

Light so dim, it's late again.
My hands don’t want to start.
I was never alone in the dark before
I was never alone in the dark.

The work is waiting, 
always waiting, 
trembling like my heart…
(Pause.  Gently spoken.)
Marie, just start.

Notes first, mark the time,
Check the plates, note the light.
The rhythm returns,
like footsteps at night.

My body remembers
before my mind—
you in the hum,
in the glass’s shine.

Steady the hand, you said.
Steady the hand, not the heart.
I whisper it softly,
and I start.

Here in the dark again—
the world holds its breath with me.
What burns will fade, 
you told me once—
now I finally see.

You’re gone, yet somehow everywhere—
the work, the air, in me.
I do it the way we planned.

You would have loved this silence,
the sounds that wait to be heard.
Our work was a conversation,
This magical light was the word.

I’m not asking for you—
but here you are somehow.
The elements remember.
And I feel you now.

Stay here while the glow allows—
no more, no less.
That was the way
we loved best.

The light gives back what it can,
and keeps the rest apart.
I steady my hands,
and steady my heart.

This room is full of secret stars,
each born of what must first decay.
I am not afraid of the dark—
I am not afraid.
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Not Afraid of the Dark

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