I universe you

Dedicated to Andre Santana for his poem "I universe you"

I looked for the stars in your eyes

Because they told me I could follow your Polaris to find my truest North.

So I gazed deep and

Fell 

Hard. 

I found countless constellations in technicolor  rainbow.

I found nebulas of celestial creations

And supergiant deaths of unparalleled gravity.

I found the speed of light and 

I understood the background electric magnetic radiation

And traced it back to the beginning of all time and light and heat and energy

The big bang. 

But I think they forgot to mention that there's no sound in space.

They forgot to mention the way stars would warp gravity

And twist spacetime around your heavenly body.

I forgot to calculate drag from my irregular shapes

And I struggled to make sense of Newton's third law:

For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.

You're space was just too big,

Too alien

For me to find my bearings. 

I tried to make sense of the universe in you

But now I'm just floating

Alone

In the dark.