Awaiting

 

Looking at you,

Awaiting for your reply,

Seconds turn slowly to millennia

 

Your shimmering eyes

Swirling galaxies of Infinity

Shine with a billion stars

 

And in that cosmos

Of Eternity, we live, we die

Untold nebulae, many a star

 

Through lands unknown,

Through times that were never born,

We arrive here in the Milky Way

 

You blink - not realising

How many oceans have dried up

So the streams in your eyes can fill again

 

You don’t need to reply,

I smile, nod and take my leave

You stand surprised as the rains arrive

 

Don’t you see?

The purpose was never to ask, nor respond

But to sense that flutter that will never die

 

I get my answer,

My only sadness, how far are you behind

Before you realise the truth I see?

 

I turn back again

Faraway you smile, and then it sinks -

It was never you, but me so many light years left behind…

 

05^th April, 2024