Nights were made for this.
Lights flicker out;
Curtains after a play,
Honey golden sadness
Seeps into my pores.
Blood replaced with
Bittersweet sorrow.
Nights were made for this.
Turning searchlight eyes skyward;
Breathing your name to the stars
So you can wander towards their glow in a whisper
Millenniums after our bodies have
Decomposed.
Nights were made for this.
Made for
Immortality echoed in the muffled crack
Of an optimistic heart,
In the fossils of reflection carried from
River banks to oceans-
The world does not have the capacity to forget.
Nights were made for this.
It's when the universe carves your name
Into its flesh
So we may live on as invulnerable as the abyss,
Made to remind us
That within us there are
Fragments of space
Expanding endlessly-
We were born
To live forever.