I smile when I think of you
how could I let that go?
you echo eternally, in disassembled bodies
and alien oxygen suits
and the ears of deaf women who will never even meet you

and when you laugh the world stops to listen
just like when you collapse and every one of earth’s hearts cave in

I started telling stories about you before I even knew you were real


so  when you tell me you love me, why does it still feel like a secret?
like love is just man made matter gone before you can feel it.