Cosmic Silence

Listen...

As the cosmic silence

Presses firmly upon your ears.

It’s deafening pressure

Making my ears warm

As if bleeding.

Overwhelming is the lack of sound.

I am almost startled

When the sound of my own breath

Bellows from my lungs,

Trying hard not to scream, laugh or cry.

What just happened?

Did I just die

Or see my life flash before my eyes?

Or was it yours?

Was the flash multi-colored

Or was it crimson red?

It wasn’t me taking any life

But you,

Taking what was left of my heart

And pushing its contents through the shaft of a syringe.

Painless for me

But euphoric for you.

I’m left on the ground

While your takeoff leaves heat, hurt

And the loss of my breath.

Oh, and that cosmic silence.

As I stand watching you ascend to the stars...

I crumble once my breath returns.

Nothing left but tears and scars.

Cosmic silence...

With you in the stars.