Starry
i want to tell you
don’t
but there is no forbidding in me
i had a dream
that you were an expanding nebula
of starlight
and supernovas
ever expanding
quantum growth
that you Became
coalesced out of
a furnace of
striving and mirth
you were fashioned
out of radiation
and waves
signals that blip
from outer recesses
and frequent
inner corners
of frank
constellations
you are your
own universe
with stars that align
planets that revolve
and populate
storms and silence
evolution and entropy
and I am my own
these awkward orbits
that soothe beauty
begin and end and begin
again
eclipses and black holes
each of us light-years across
made of systems
and gravity
dark matter which
has bound each of
us
and made us cohesive
what if we collide
as we have
many passes
starry whorls
entwine arms
starlight kissing
synodic cycles
if our systems
do not hold
if we are not greater
than our
gravitational mass
one will merge
the other
and cannabilize stars
our celestial mechanics
will enfold and dissolve
instead let us tandem
spin and support
slow going
parabolic trajectory
pregnant growth
