(Under the Milky Way Tonight)




We are falling toward each other

at the speed of space time
                                        It is mass and density which gives gravity power

                                        to pull us towards each other

                                        like the crab nebular

                                        and the milky way

                                        speeding toward a collision

                                        so far away that we forget

                                        how important it is

                                        to behave well

                                        now. How to treat each other in a way

                                        that balances all those learnt

                                        things that will disappear.
                                                                                 Light. Coming out of a morning

                                                                                 in the country. Grass light green

                                                                                 and a million shades,

                                                                                 the mist lifting. I remember

                                                                                 the red bridge in

                                                                                 Monet’s garden. 
It is more important than you can ever

imagine. And yet, yes

it will disappear

like everything else. Falling toward

the centre. Memory covers the

territory quickly

so that everything seems like an

illusion. Like a trick of the light

falling toward

all that we have known making

its way through colour

weaving by numbers.
                                 A mass that is mostly air

                                 as all matter is

                                 made of

                                 air. That can be our own galaxy

                                 our own place, but is still

                                 mostly space.