So this is what it feels like 
To fall in love 
The whole world dims 
They become the sun 
Stars outshine city lights 
Memories fill your days and nights 
A smile makes you melt 
A kiss makes you glow 
The mysteries of alchemy 
Take front row 
 
What is it about you 
That has me on chokehold? 
Eyes like black holes 
Your pupils are my world 
They breathe life into my lungs 
Limp my bones with awe 
Time didn’t exist 
When it hit me like an asteroid: 
‘I am not just exchanging flesh 
I am making love’ 
 
And it’s all the more intense 
Because it’s the first 
Because it’s fleeting  
And bound to end 
Laws and money 
Will douse this fire 
Dido laments 
Light a pyre 
 
You fled on a ship  
Fuelled by desire 
While I was building a telescope 
That could blaze a fire 
You flicked your flames 
And cooled into a dwarf 
I hug you like the atmosphere 
When we laugh in my thoughts 
 
My chest constricts in your void 
I sought your oxygen; you left me destroyed 
Gave birth to undying moments 
My vacuum is loud when you are not 
 
It feels like déjà vu 
I wrote this line before I had a clue 
I always experience things in reverse 
Such is my life in this universe 
But at least I have this present now 
Better than never 
Better than none.