in the background
the soundtrack of my private despair
dream of
gazing into your eyes, light glimmering
those stray photons
etching like laser light
into the hidden dimensions of my heart
nonsense tumbles from my lips
like verbal troglodytes
misshapen, ugly, and needlessly brutal
I am tumbling through space
flailing wildly, trapped in my own vortex
forever hiding my desire
the conversation spins and spirals
I am mesmerized, enchanted
the space between us unravels, splays out
into cold, immeasurable distance
to die numb and unfeeling
light fading, the false warmth of frostbite
alone in this merciless maelstrom
this unforgiving tempest
I see my doom wrought in the golden thread of the Fates
reaching into infinity, unraveled, unfettered, unbound
in the blackness of empty space
I can only dream
of the life I was not destined to.