Infinity

You are a star,

The mark upon the night

That fights the moonlight

And for it stands apart

From all other things,

So close and yet so far.

You are a dream,

The whisper in the dark

That spreads across the mind

Like velvet blankets

And nothing is at it seems

Except the sudden warmth,

The sudden serenity of something there

That can’t be seen.

You, a flicker

In the world.

Seconds of life and breath

Then death.

And yet that flicker

Spreads out like a nova

Or some might say like

The beginning of everything,

From one point to infinity,

Touching all and not able to be explained.

Metaphors and similes

And paradoxes and rhymes,

And words that are just tangents to you

That try to form a shape

To something that is nothing more than dreams.

Love.

And this is a star,

A mark upon a page

That one day will remain to remind

People of what I was and what you were to me.

Some will see it and others will look at the moon

And not notice the smaller glows nearby like this.

And this is a dream,

These words that come fast from my mouth

Without thought more than the movement of my fingers,

No drafts or revisions,

This is the first and this is the last.

Like you, unique.  Like love,singular.

And hopefully it, too, is a flicker

That spreads out from a single period point,

And spreads across the white and makes it black

In a way that doesn’t mean evil and doesn’t mean ‘lack’

And then, it spreads past the page and the screen

And becomes the serenity of something unseen

And touches you.