Love Settled Once Upon a Star

Love Settled Once Upon a Star

2007

jp melville

love settled once upon a star

burning brilliantly into the cold emptiness of my abyss

a strange visitor

around which i circled

one slow step at a time

not knowing what the creature was

nor from who nor whence it came

i tried looking at its fire from upside down

was able to circumnavigate a full three hundred and sixty degrees

in all directions

like the little prince on his planet with his sheep

and his rose

that he so worried about

oddly my eyes could hold open

and retain focus on this burning brilliance

without pain

without blinking

powerless to let sight of it go

a strange creature

fallen into my life

to whom and from whom

my heart was now bound in invisible threads

attached

detached

that i watched

around which i circled

yet felt only ridden wholly inside

my thoughts

my heart

my bones

my flesh

this burning brilliance

that seared with all intensity

yet soothed

as i circled

and watched

knowing

wondering how

that this visitor that had entered

and was now the world in which i was

curiously would be

was me

apart

yet inside

tethered by invisible threads

that neither tied nor bound

rather fused from two to one

yes

love settled once upon a star

became my universe

the abyss washed away from emptiness

burning in the fullness of one heart