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
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