a sorrow made of stardust

i drift through the cosmos of love

time seems caught on a clock god once dropped

my heart moves neither forward

nor finds its way back

the stars i touched have gone silent

each perhaps another version of me

falling like unfinished sentences

off the edge of the universe

are they too far? i no longer know

inside me, a quiet astronomer

orbits a system unnamed

as if love, too, had gravity

but never enough to pull me in

a black hole grows in me

a nameless void

it swallows my poems

hides my memories

and still fails to make you real

will you come save me in your spaceship?

or were you only an illusion

a shadow in plato’s cave

a flicker i mistook for flame?

my unknown beloved

perhaps you never existed

but the echo of your absence

speaks louder than presence ever could

still i wait for you

in a broken corner of the sky

at a little dream station

built between being and nothingness