silent and half in shadow
i orbit to your obligation
pulling on your tides
          if i may draw you closer
dancing in hysterical pirouettes
i turn just for you

but as i spin in circles
you turn likewise for someone else
dancing your own frenzied dance
you look away from me
to gaze into the brilliance
          of her light

as i am tied to you
in concentric circles
you dance in wider orbit
around her fiery immensity
leaving me a spot of light
          in empty darkness

and even as i pour forth
all of me from my very core
i realize that the only light
          that i shine forth
is but a meager imitation
of her glorious radiance

surrounded by speeding rocks
i have become desolate and cold
full of craters of expansive lonliness
but i am always turning for you

i am under the spell
of your inescapable gravity