My Sun

My sweltering star blazing

with passion, steadfast and constant,

as you love with your whole being

rather than simply your heart.

Although you radiated warmth

that gently kissed one's skin,

people avoided you in fear

of being scorched by your being.

☀︎

Yet in this lonely solar system

your only solace was imagining her

chilling touch. His moon. An ethereal

entity adorned by delicate frost

that covered the scars of her craters.

He couldn't escape the pull of her gravity.

New, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full

ever changing yet he still adored

all of her phases.

☾

And there I stood, at the edge,

flickering silently beside him.

One step, a final desperate attempt,

and I fell just like I fell for you.

Fast, abrupt, soundless... like a falling star.

A blink-and-you-miss-it occurrence,

quite the fitting analogy for the truth.

Sparing me a glance in that moment

only for the moon to captivate you again.

★

Those weightless moments caught

between your side and the ground,

were spent enjoying your fleeting heat.

Goodbye my sun.

Ah. Was that the shattering

of the earth... or my heart?