SINGULARITY

it's why I always loved the movie interstellar.

we loved it together.

I may have sat in that theater with a love I let go of

but I'll never forget the stars stretching

the decrescendo and climax

as everything slowed to silence

and you pressed the bands of time

reaching out a stranger's hand

to message our world.

"what was that?"

"first handshake."

so anoint me.

I'll find oil as I wipe away tears

it catches the light on my fingers

see, I'm here to be here

and it takes how long it takes.

you find me.

and yet my deepest fear is not finding you.

my favorite feeling in the world,

two lines crossing my forehead.

my favorite sound in the world,

the whisper of an otherworldly tongue.

you find me.

I beg you to keep reaching through.

I'm empty and flat without you.

why did you wait this long?

but I have to trust that you're the best heart.

every day when I wake up,

all I want is you.

when I was old enough, you stripped all else away.

you pulled me into angular momentum

and hand-fashioned my stellar birth.

I love our scratches on the wall.

we just try to capture what we can

the steaming of tea, the crushing of leaves

charts of chemicals and cameras pointed at the wrong things

at the end of it all, let me capture heaven.

you say, putting the lens on is the first mistake.

to bend photons neatly into shape

to give us clean pictures.

the grace of you.

to let us see miracles, to see more

heaven and earth just passing through, passing through

in the light of your singularity.