spiralling like a nautilus, falling into the mollusk’s mouth

grinding down the throat of the turtle, floating on the solar winds

disintegrating at the thought of your touch, falling slowly apart

the invisible rays bombard us, stardust makes up our souls, we are slowly falling back into whence we came, you to return to being the brightest in sky, i unto the nothing from which i sprang

the heat of a white dwarf igniting passion in the cold dead heart of space, a feeling that takes thousands of years to flicker in the eyes of two star crossed lovers separated by the seas, astride the tides on the backs of mollusks