I Will Love You for 24,000 Years
Lucky Mantinades*
In 2013, news appeared about a newly found world, nicknamed “Einstein’s planet”, that orbits its star every 36 hours. It is located around 2,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. Since a year is so short on this planet, any intelligent life must be very brilliant.
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Will you marry me as soon as we are 5,000 years old?
It depends on whether the precursory years are bankrolled.
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I will love you for 24,000 years, the suns willing.
You can only hope that you will, with your wishing fulfilling.
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I have not slept in a year since we met on the second moon.
We will meet again in a few years if it is not too soon.
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Your antennae are more prepossessing every passing year.
It is on account of my unregulated atmosphere.
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There are planets in other constellations light-years away.
Their years are much longer but they are a short time from doomsday.
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Is there intelligent life elsewhere within the Universe?
The idea is both unverifiable and perverse.
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There is new poetry on the fifth moon called 36 5.
Thirty-six syllables on five lines recited to survive.
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* A mantinada typically consists of a Cretan 15-syllable rhyming couplet. Mantinades is the plural. Dedicated to Anthi Psomiadou.
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Patrick M. Ohana
A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.
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