Gravity

Adash0fflow

It was raining when I first heard you were coming.
"A rogue planet" the news reporters said,
"drifting so close to Earth, they might just collide!"

I had to see you for myself.

It was fate, you see.
fate, that you drifted carelessly across the galaxy,
for uncounted years,
only to cross paths with me, at a single point in time,
in a single place,
amidst the infinite void.

I felt your gravity before you ever entered our solar system.
I was drawn to you, like a raindrop pulled to Earth.

My friends and neighbors warned me,
"Stay away!"
"She'll be the death of you!"
But fate, as it turns out, is inescapable.
Like a black hole.

So I stood on the Event Horizon, and waited for you,
and long after everyone I knew had hid away in their bunkers,
you finally arrived.

Your brilliance outshone the Sun.
Your beauty took the very breath from the Earth itself.
You burned across the sky, and turned the world upside down.

And then you left, as quickly as you came.

But you never returned my breath to me,
and so I lay on the scorched earth, alone.
And I suffocated in your wake,
crushed by your gravity.

But I knew this would happen.
For I was a hopeless man, and you were a beautiful disaster.
And fate, as it turns out, is inescapable.

  • Author: Adash0fflow (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 25th, 2017 03:32
  • Category: Sad
  • Views: 30
  • Users favorite of this poem: Syd, Adela.
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Comments4

  • BRIAN & ANGELA

    WELCOME FRIEND ~ Thanks for a very challenging first Poem. It has happened to most MEN and certainly to me over the past 17 years (I'm 34). It does HURT but my Love Mantra is: "Better to have loved a BEAUTIFUL DISASTER ~ than never to have loved at all" I love close encounters of the "Exotic Love" kind. I am currently in a very piquant relationship ~ with ANGELA. Thanks for sharing it stirred my MEMORY ! Please check my site ~ Yours BRIAN

    • Adash0fflow

      Thanks for the kind words Brian!

      Glad to hear your path has lead you to a happy relationship.

    • Syd

      Great poem. "A beautiful disaster" I love that - Syd

      • Adash0fflow

        Thanks Syd! 🙂

      • Christina8

        This is a great first poem! I would agree in your last line that fate...is inescapable. Wonderful job, can't wait to read more!

        • Adash0fflow

          Thanks so much for the encouragement! Definitely nerve racking sharing for the first time.

        • Violet bluebell( used to be yellow rose)

          brilliant poem! 🙂 a powerful expression of someone literally turning your world upside down and destroying it!

          I suffocated in your wake,
          crushed by your gravity.''
          some people are simply too overbearing and too much , however seemingly brilliant they may be., if they bring only destruction then they are not worth it! some people cannot help but bring destruction into other peoples lives, whether they mean to or not ...

          • Adash0fflow

            Thanks! 🙂

            You're right, sometimes the most beautiful people are the most dangerous.



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