“I feel a great weight bearing down
Can you say the same?
A cosmic spread lies overhead
Calling both our names.
It groans and heaves from side to side
A titan so aloof!
Yet on this ground was never found
A more disarming view
And so I’ll ask just one more time
Why you had to go?
Our home was one, then came undone
Now I’m trapped below.”
Oh best of friends, I feel your tug
A world away, it rings above
Years go by when all I do
Is dwell on what I shared with you
And yet my past tense can’t deny
The forward motion of our tie
For carried where we used to gaze
It brings tomorrow here today.
“I sight your orbit from afar
A shape so very you
If I could be your perigee
Who knows what we could do?
Yet as my vision starts to cloud
From age or tears (or both)
The route you trace becomes a haze
Whose walls obscure your glow
And so the gulf between us swells
As I approach the end
But before I go, just let me know:
Will we meet again?”
Dear, you know as well as I
The cosmos have a way with time
It’s how they joined my path with yours
And ruled that they would cross no more
Yet still, our bond survives the void
As long as you remain that boy
So taken by the world beyond
You’ll come to learn it’s never gone.