Astronomically Yours

Astronomically Yours

(a love poem)

If what you say is true and I'm a celestial being

then I'd spend a billion light years

just hangin' around your galaxy

eclipsing you like the moon radiating like the sun

orbiting spinning circulating rotating

three hundred and sixty degrees

at epic speeds with intensely terminal velocities

entrapping you within the depths of my soul

completely exhaustively infinitely like a limitless black hole

I'd believe in you like astrology

study you like trigonometry

figure you into my complex equation

become the inverse to your square relation

because my passion and adoration

can only be measured by powers of ten and scientific notation

I'd defy the laws of gravity

mock Einstein's relativity

to illustrate precisely what you do to me

see

your touch makes me explode pulse spin like a quasar

fall like a shooting star

can't fight it won't deny it

you get my protons neutrons electrons and atoms

over excited

and when we kiss move melt collide

I'm suspended like space-time

transported to the outermost tip of the cosmos

baby, don't you know?

if I was a planet I'd exist

simply to revolve around

you

excerpted from:

Passion, Pride, and Politickin': Homegrown Poetry and Essays

by Ms. Jamal Sharif, 2000