I Will Love You for 24,000 Years

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.