I always say I wanna run away to Mars
but the truth is I'd go to Jupiter with you.

I don't let that slip
because maybe it's inappropriate.
You're on a trip around Venus
but i'm stuck in your orbit.

i would sleep unclothed
not for comfort
but to feel your skin on mine
in the most intimate
and innocent way

now i sleep bundled up
covering every inch of my body
because nothing will ever matter
as much as your skin
on my skin
your toes
on my toes
your hair
splashed across the sheets

in the space between
our sound and silence,
there exist two of me
and one of them
is kissing you.

now i must learn science
to turn back time and win you back
we had chemistry
but i spilled the beaker
gravitational pull
every atom of my being belonging to you
with your electromagnetic hands
but i am reactive
i burn and burn and burn
i set fire to the oxygen surrounding me
i explode like a nuclear sunset
i am a gamma ray
and you are the calloused feet that ran
behind your lead shield you stay
but i am stuck here forever
i cannot decompose
i am cursed energy
i can never die
though i’ve never felt more dead
i am burdened to exist forever
in every form i transition into
but you are life
you are precious and fleeting
full of energy
until one day you are not
i am doomed to see the world without you
infinitely
i beg to be powering your body
my temporary home
i wish you could stay forever
but i am energy
and you are life
i’ll be stuck here forever
waiting
for your reincarnation

you melted in the concrete,

while you held my concerned eyes,

rolling to find truth and lie.

your hands traversed the night,

wishing stranger hands,

held a better time.