Gravity of Emptiness
When you’re with someone
Even nothing becomes gravity
Without someone, space is a vacuum
My Hadean era without you
When Earth had no one to love
I came home to nothing and nobody
That hollow feeling returns without you
I remember when I had someone 24/7
I could watch the news or read a book
Like old times ungrateful of your presence
But, without someone inhabiting a world
Is heavy and hard, empty and consuming
Atlas couldn’t lift this world alone
Waiting for someone to give effort purpose
Without natural selection dreaming of us
How do the old survive partners passed?
How when chicks outgrow their nest?
Someday will I be an old cat under the sun
Solitary in his last dreaming content
Like Gaia ushering in Titans' children
Divorced from someone, I hold up my planet
For someone to inhabit other than me
When they leave, there's a world in solitude
I’ll age alone without companionship
As it was before when we were new
Making my world real as stardust
I’ll become the universe looking in
Without someone’s gravity
Ground me above the graveyard
Till then there's the grind
Copyright © Triny Xiang | Year Posted 2023
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