BEFORE THE STORM

COSMIC DELIRIA

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"I WAS AURORA BOREALIS
AND YOU WERE THE SOLAR
WINDS DRIVING ME WILD!"

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| i took one atomic glance at you and the universe was born. | my heart raced like a hypersonic blazar when you first gazed at me through blue interstellar eyes—my ethereal cheeks tinting redder than the bronzy surface of mars. | you sent a crescent smile in my direction and my whole body lit up with a galactic fervor. | (i think i might've put venus' morning glow to shame!) | you kissed me and two lenticular galaxies united. | the earth proposed to the atmosphere and it felt like i was swimming in ancient nebulas for the first time. | "did i just encountered the rest of my life?  | i beamed towards the open sky; blissfully ignoring fate as she regretfully cried. |

| with a few spherical fingertips, you traced the constellations on my face and told me that the zodiacs built melanin homes on my skin. | softly, and oh so sweetly, you whispered how my lips reminded you of andromeda's humility and perseus' courage. | "their love was written in the stars," you said, "but we—you and i—we create, we rule, we breathe those infernos." | and so our earthshine hearts aligned before other planets could have their first dance. | (they never even stood a chance.) | i once found my betrothed lost within the astral abyss; a stray from the zeal of light. | you were searching for something warm—someone soft—to shape into a breathing hearth. | i never knew someone so enticing could be this delirious. | 

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"LET'S DROWN OURSELVES IN
STARDUST! LET'S CAPTURE THE
MOONLIGHT! LET'S BE REBORN!"

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| i was once a lone satellite; aimlessly wandering through the endless avenues of infinity in ice-cold darkness. | until one sunny day when you first captured my nucleus; coaxing me into orbiting you in narrow—albeit unbroken—ellipses. | but your gravitational field was ever so convulsive, my dear. | the force beaconed me towards you like a solar magnet during those lunar dusks; daring me to break course—to drift back into the void. | (my authority was centrifugal, but your resolution was not.) | hazardous gamma rays broke through the inner confinements of your eclipsing irises—eager to start yet another apocalyptic war. | in the end, your radioactive waste merely ended up blinding—melting—this blazing heart of mine. |

| with jupiter's pride and a temperament of neptune, the rings surrounding your icy heart remained frozen in place despite my efforts to melt them. | your devotion was but a mere optical illusion; a parallax through the lens of an observing astronomer. | i serenaded a telescopic lullaby of a hundred thousand million falling stars and prayed for one last supernova over the horizon—desperately seeking guidance. | i fell asleep to the bane of a neutron star deep into the night—bitter, lonely, eerily unafraid. | in your spiraling embrace, i dreamt of lethargic moondust and expired starlight—the consequence of our union; an end to this universe we made. |

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"EVEN REMEDIAL HEARTS
CAN FALL IN LOVE WITH
BLACK CYANIDE GODS!"

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| one morning, after eons and eons of everlasting fights, i woke up to an eclipse with a necrotizing halo and a dozen weeping comets. | at some point during the night, you'd claimed an alien star and drunk it dry—allowing its flames to dance over your charcoal tongue while savoring the burning flavor. | "could you please extract these vile, deceptive ashes from my veins?" i implored. "they're scorching my insides and turning my bitter flesh into wasted embers!" | but the faint echo of two celestial bodies connecting and reconnecting was enough to drive me over the brink... one last time. |

| we clashed and the scarlet sun ultimately succumbed to our cataclysmic dynamic. | you turned into that royally black hole you were always destined to be before finally absorbing the very last remaining spark within my bare cinder bones. | the last lingering stars rained from the empyrean sky, the blood moon vaporized and white rays of sunlight silently mellowed into waves of weary darkness. | hopelessly, i followed your lead as i, too, collapsed into a vortical singularly; taking what was left of life with me. |"till death do us part," i reminisced; letting out one last sardonic laugh before i finally closed my eyes. | time had expired—only numb ice and broken dust fragments remained in our place. | "goodbye." |

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"DARLING, YOU AND I HAVE
BEEN STAR-CROSSED LOVERS
SINCE THE DAWNING OF TIME!"

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