My Astronaut Lover

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He was an Astronaut

drifting in space

looking for the stars and

some sign of life.

I, I was a dead planet

glowing with borrowed light

but shining all the same.

And he came to me

Like an explorer

In search of life.

But I was not Gaia,

Only rocks and pebbles

With a million years history

of dead surface.

He tried, I don’t blame,

But my carbon was not oxygen

And my silence was not life.

So he went back,

Leaving behind a flag

As a remnant of his landing

And I stayed here,

In my orbit

Waiting for another astronaut

Waiting for another flag.