The New Big Bang

You were a universe

There on the screen

Beating

As the eye holds the same twisted stretches

Of endless meeting places

As tree trunks,

Veins,

The Amazon Rainforest

So too were you all of me

And more

And this was just another meeting place

For us

I’d laid back

The blue fabric separating us

The only thing to be separating us

And when I heard your cries

And I saw your face

The ten toes

The eyes like mine

I knew that all the words

In all the poems

In all the world

Couldn’t ever answer

The cataclysmic expansion in my chest

The New Big Bang

Particles rushing to every corner of a thousand stars

Around a thousand planets

Loose string theory weaving a web

In which the words hung

I am yours, and you are mine

And in a million lifetimes

I know that the final veil holds no threat

And when our atoms shatter

And coalesce in new ways

And we are rivers

Bark,

Dew drops

That would just be another meeting place

For us