Chapter 32: Space lover

Poems 2Words: 2002

Black holes colliding

End of worlds

Creation of life

Immortality in death

With loss of humanity

Time reversed and bent and touched

An old friend a stranger

Bigger than sun

Smaller than dust

A speck of nothingness your home

A choice after choice after choice

A hunger for the unexplored

Unknown is where you exist

Where you live and cry and kiss and smile and break apart

All the galaxies combust under your gentle touch

But when you kick and scream and shout

Frustration mixed with anger and regret

End up consumed

Turned into dark matter

Led to salvation

Exchange of trust

Infinite and irresistible

Burning in its intensity

Smelling of mistakes and new starts

Forgetting and moving on

Remembering and forgiving

Getting lost in the vacuum of your lover's touch

Melting asteroids burn your wayward heart

When you glimpse the shine in their eyes

Reflecting meteor showers

Sparkling and gold like a whiskey sunset

Ready to combust into a million translucent pieces

Candescent soul blinding everything in sight

Planets exploding

The universe imploding

No sound not even a whisper

About the why and the how of it all

Only the beginning and the end

Merged into one brilliant being

Orbiting each other

For years or days or maybe a fraction of a second or millenia

A forever but slightly to the left

Shining like a dead star

A paradox in a neverending cascade of tears

Moons made of devotion

Comets falling

Leaving behind destruction in the wake of their love

A sign of "I was here

I felt and had and made and took and grieved

I gained and I lost and I won

But was it enough

Will it ever be"

Even constallations have to leave behind a broken legacy

Planets rise and fall with their oceans

At the turn of a tide

From dust they come

To dust they shall return

The embrace of nebulae

Feather-light blink-and-you-miss-it

Memory foggy yet reliable

Memories erased yet still treasured

Inventions always remember their creator

No matter how big and bright and untouchable

Escapable but still loving

And in return loved