fragment

Transient as your heart may be
home still must have a name

your soul, a center to find peace 
in the midst of orbit

through the turbulence of this world
I wonder what hope you find in flight

the continual here and there
coming and going

pushing and pulling
leaving and longing

the parting, and then the next
how do you keep yourself whole

in passing, and what is home
if it is not a place?

I wanted to be gravity, to be constant
but us, twilight in transit

and you, always crossing stars
a sparkle too elusive to align

like an enigma shooting through the galaxy
tranversing curiosity, I saw you celestial

in the constellation of your being

do you ever imagine

what you must look like 

to the stars and the moon

the same ones you try to reach

the same ones your radiance eclipses

and if I could I would give you both

but stardust is too mercurial

so I hold this space
wistful, unrequited as it may be

love is still here
even if it's not how I dreamed.