8.9.08

A Visitor From the East

I hope you drown on the West coast horizon.

I hope the ocean finally takes you.

I hope that when you come around in the morning

One of us isn’t here to see your

Blinding bright sunlight screaming through

the barricade of my tightly squeezed eyelids.

I hope one of us wonders why

My eyes are no longer open to

The brilliance of you and

Wondering why you haven’t

settled next to me.

I hope the moon is in the sky

The entire day and you and I don’t

Ever cross our paths again.

You burn me. Prolonged exposure.

Too bright, too high in the sky

Combined with too low, too small, not good enough.

So pass me by, you giant orb of ever-expanding gas

And wonder as you fly over me

Why I’m no longer hovering around

Mistaking orbit for relationship

Like Pluto before we found out

He didn’t belong.

I’ll find another gravitational pull

To get sucked into.

Another universe to sign my name to.

Pass over me, alone in the sky

All along wondering why I haven’t tried to hold your hand.

I've been burned before for trying to take lesser stars

from their place above me.

The scars on my hand prove that you were just another one.

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