Love of my life

Never leave me,

Because I've forgotten who it is that I am

On my own.

I often wonder if I was ever born.

Not the part of me that is made up

Of stardust and comets

But the part of me greater than that.

Were we always here?

A whisper in the big bang.

Were we always here?

Less like ships passing in the night

And maybe more like binary stars,

Spinning round and round one another,

Just destined to collide. Because

That's what it felt like.

The first time you looked at me.

Like 999 trillion tons of explosives slamming into my chest.

I couldn't breathe to say the least.

But you're always doing that.

Taking things from me.

Mostly my breath

But also my heart and my composure

Though, perhaps that leaves on its own.

You've stolen so much of my love

I was wondering if you needed help to get it out the door.

Because I'll be a thief also if you want me too

But that's not the kind of art I want to steal.

I want to steal the poetry from your lungs

And glances in your direction.

I want to steal hearts with our love story.

I want to write it on the walls of every museum,

That sometimes the most incomprehensibly spectacular things

Don't play out like fairytales.