Dark matter clouds the synapses
that once allowed you to love me.
I used to sit on the rim of your glasses
as we drank constellation wine,
connecting dots in our minds and I
would sprinkle nebula glitter on my breast,
you'd take my krypton fingers and we'd
dance across the galaxy, comets at our feet,
it was a nova just beginning.
When we were both molecules,
still young and foolish, you'd whisper
soundtracks about how family 11 would
inhabit my fingers, you'd shower me in
antimony compliments that'd never
brush the veneer of my noble soul.
Here, we were ignored the threats of a
thousand white dwarfs, dark stars,
and black holes that sulk in the shadows
of the subways.
The night of the blue moon,
you told me you were atomic 109.
You're only nuclear fusion, artificial,
bound to break apart.
That was the night I learned not
to confuse science with the stars.
