I want to watch the world explode
from deep within your core,
to see and move like you do.

And I wonder what you glass now,
those orbs burning with need 
as my back meets cool night grass
and the sudden jolt surges 
with your heat enveloping me.

All I see is a curtain of wild hair 
and the silver needlepoints
that seem punctured into the sky
and for a moment I think of how small 
we must seem compared to above,
two writhing creatures straining
to move along yet we connect
in what must be a blink of fragile time.

That tells me we are never truly alone.

And I've never met anyone who 
sees the stars like you do,
that vast expanse of dying lights,
some of which extinguished
long ago and are now only
the final ghosts of an afterglow.

You saw the beauty there,
the raw matter of the world and where
I couldn't quite feel their warmth,
what mattered the most was
I could always feel you.

And I wanted you in the same way
you craved that starlight,
visible yet almost from
an impossible distance.

But I want to watch the world explode
from deep within your core,
to breathe and pulse like you do.

And I don't fear what comes after,
I don't fear the oblivion rippling through us
in that moment when everything narrows
down to the brutal precision of our release,
that breathless stillness we reach together
in what must be the most fragile tear in time.

That tells me we are never truly alone.

I only fear that you will ask what I saw there
and I'll strain for the words to tell you
that I finally saw the stars as you do,
that infinite and incomprehensible
canvas of lights burned out long ago
and we only really get to see their ghosts,
that your warmth is what mattered the most.

And what always follows me after isn't
how I caught fractals of night rainbows
briefly shimmering across your eyes,
it isn't even the way your face buried 
into my neck as if you knew everything else
was too vast and beyond understanding
and here you could contract the universe
into something that we could fold and unfold,
it was the way you still held me inside,
one body refusing to relinquish another.

You saw beauty there in us,
I could finally feel it locked with you,
the raw matter of the world illuminated,
I could finally see as your eyes do.

That tells me we will never truly be alone.