Transcendence of a lifetime

I crossed a thousand deaths to stand in front of you

The universe went quiet the second that I knew

Your hands, your breath,

the way your body leans toward mine

Every star I ever followed led me here in time

Come closer,

let me feel the weight of what we are

No more searching through the dark,

no more chasing distant scars

I’ve waited longer than the light has had a name

And now you’re real and warm and mine

and nothing feels the same

Across the stars I found you

In this one skin,

this one wild night

The end is still where we begin

But right now

you are

mine

I want your mouth,

your pulse, your every unspent year

I want the ordinary days and

every whispered fear

Lie down with me and let the cosmos hold its breath

We’ve earned this life,

this love, this soft and endless death

When the final night

takes both our hands again

I’ll meet you in the dark the way I’ve always been

Same vow,

same fire,

same hunger in my chest Until the next time dust remembers how

we kissed

Across the stars I found you

Through every door and every skin

I’d die a thousand times again

Just to hold you

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