Looking for something: no, he said,
Troubled in mind, sleepless he went off to bed
Where she was waiting, soft in slumber
He, questioning the skies, grew numb
Numbering the nights, as he would calculate the stars'
Courses through time, catastrophe removed
Greater than the tangled wreck of lives,
Lesser now than that bleak sky.
Sensed through a blind window
Of a troubled mind.
Sensed in frustration
Beating against time.
He turns toward her
Celestial serenity
As she rolls toward him
Releasing identity
In the fusive collision
In the combine
Cosmological energy created this moment,
Stars in their courses always in time
Vaulting above her, curved in the depth of stellar space
Exploding with energy, solar flare in tight embrace
Charging carbon-cycle electric fire this prosaic bed
A universal cycle in a mundane room, two together all very seen
Ending…ending for only a moment, like the fusion of particles
Stars in their courses, charted in skies
Doubting astronomer, by his lover he lies….

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