A Love Older Than the Universe
I first loved you
When the universe was still dark.
Being swaddled infinitely
In the endless womb of existence
Became bearable once you appeared.
We travelled through galaxies
Encased securely in each other’s arms.
When the photons broke free,
Unleashing light and colour
Into the cosmos,
I sewed your favourite shades
Into the sunrise and sunset.
Long after I cease to exist,
These will start and end every day,
Wrapping your waking moments
In the memory of how much I love you.
In the time before oxygen,
I taught myself to inhale
Purely for you to take my breath away.
When our world began,
And oxygen became mundane,
I relearned breathlessness
So you could once more breathe me to life.
In the time before sound,
I serenaded you with a ballad
Played with the silent, sporadic twinkling
Of dying stars.
When life began on our planet,
I taught nature my song.
Long after I'm nothing but
A pleasant memory,
Birds will profess my undying devotion
In tens of thousands of different ways;
The wind will whisper remnants of
Our pillow talks sweetly into your ears;
The rustling of leaves will chuckle
With our inside jokes;
I've left an adoring orchestra
For you,
My dear,
So you are never truly alone.
Loving you is easy.
It has always been easy.
Forever is too short a time
For our souls to intertwine.
Fear did not exist until I first
Thought of losing you.
We come from a time of nothingness;
We come from a time before matter,
But I have spent a thousand lifetimes
Carving our love into
This little planet we call home.
I have carefully woven us into this universe
With invisible thread,
Leaving evidence that we were here;
That we learned;
That we grew;
That we loved.
© O.M.A
