Girl on the steps

An intergalactic love poem

There once was a girl who sat on the steps of my apartment building each and every day

She never spoke to anyone as they passed by but just smiled politely

Sometimes she would glance my way and our eyes would interlock

Like two stars headed for an interstellar binary collision

Our gravitational waves would pull one towards the other

And then she would look away and write in her thick, black journal

This went on for nearly a year and a half until one day she was no longer there

And all that was left was that lonesome journal on the steps

I picked it up and leafed through the well-worn pages

It was a memoir that she had written about me and her

A story about two roving stars hurtling across the universe in search

Of one another until they met in an explosion of intergalactic proportions

And in the end, all that was left was an enormous, time-bending black hole

Devoid of light but dense with matter

I’m a writer, editor, and designer based in Australia.

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