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Cosmic Afterglow (take two)
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Soul mates It has been endless years my love
a thousand rotations of the stars
you still haunt the corners of my mind
and in the most devious places I find
I hustle clever just to be in your atmosphere
scheming against the cosmos to bring you near
Just to take you in deeply and feel home
To spend with you one silent moment alone
burning so warmly on my approach
I forget and burn to oblivion upon entry
A vaporous gas with no substance
I disappear lost in your atmosphere
Oh but for that one sweet time When
the universe held mercy and looked away
as a part of me made it through to you
held in your hand finger tips on my tips
as I almost breathed you in.
I could hold you in my arms forever,
but the sands beneath our feet
shifted like the sands of time
I tried to change my universe
tried to balance my life on a dime
instead I learned to dance on a
never ending magic shifting carpet ride
The cards of our destiny in space
and time were cruelly dealt
such unkind cards in configuration to pass
through our hands unfairly we felt.
The Aces are held in other’s hands
held close to their clueless chests
the spade a symbol of beguile,
mystique and loss, longing and trials
has become our totems and creed
Dodging luck’s arrows in love
while chasing your afterglow.
All good things they say must end
But we know ours is yet to begin
a tragedy unintended lasting the ages
how could a match so perfect without union
still fail to capture the cosmos’ compassion?
And yet in hope we wait till the cosmos
Speaks that our love can finally reign
Then my soul will find you at the worlds end
and we will come together in a union so
perfect flesh would be a defilement
and this shining supernova will be the
casting of our afterglow.
