Wrapped inside

this starry night with you

Lightning bugs blinking by

Like moments myriad lifetimes away

Wavering inside my little cocoon,

I am feeling unsafe.

This moment, ephemeral

Each cracked smile is half-felt;

The eye of the storm is

My shepherd.

The feeling out your shining eyes

Pooled in mine is one to melt

In moments, savoring is my only option

So hide away I will gather these memories

Reminding myself I

Am a masterpiece, that crunching glass

Beneath my toe

Will not shatter me, that this land

Will not crumble with your absence, that wrenching out

This hollow space is not

Intangible,

Cherish myself

But at the moment I must escape my

Torrents so I scramble behind a facade of y o u.

So beneath the same flaming spheres of chaos

I am alone, turning beneath the covers, wringing it out,

And become my own milky way, sinking deeper

My skin unravels around me

As the asteroid belt,

My entrails surrounding me like the planets

Revolve around the sun.

The pulse of the universe resounds in warm thumps

In the hollow of my chest

And although there exist fleeting moments

Of you and me

I embrace myself

Eternally.