“Love is a sideways emotion in a life where I’ve tried to stay vertical. But now I’m lying diagonally— trying to fill the space where our bodies would meet— and I can’t bear the thought of standing anymore.

Time slipped away slow when my eyes were on you. Now you’re gone. And the sand in the hour glass wants to escape along with you. Each grain another moment lost.

And yet the cells of my body will echo our history in the cosmic deep.

Each speck is a star waiting to be reborn.
I’ll stay sideways- no need to fear before the ether echoes.

Before stranger sands beckon.”