A/N:
This poem is NOT mine. It was written by Miss Therese Villarante. Isa sa mga prof namin noong college though hindi ako naging student niya :( but she is REALLY good and nice and amazing. Sinali ko lang 'tong poem na 'to dito because this is very close to me, like it speaks for me. Akong ako 'to, eh. So yeah, enjoy!*****
My heart, the astronaut
Wants to go to the Moon.
Her love began that first night
She slept alone in her own room.
She felt herself become no one's shadow
And she was terrified to disappear in the morning.
Until she had seen the Moon outside her window
And she forgot about the shadows altogether.
This was also how she learned to miscalculate distance.
I've been telling her,
"I'm sorry. I can't do it."
I researched Astronaut Requirements online
And there's no way I'm getting into NASA.
I swear.
But she keeps acting like she doesn't know me.
I overeat.
I'm claustrophobic.
I'm deathly afraid of heights.
I don't even know how to drive a car, much more a space shuttle.
But my heart, the astronaut, and I are different.
She insists that it's not too far away.
That I'm the only thing pulling them apart, not gravity.
I turn my back on the Moon.
I try to close my eyes
And breathe convincingly without a helmet.
I drown my heart's attempt for lift-off.
So it pounds in my chest, in the dark of it,
And I tell her to keep quiet.
I hope someday she can forgive me.

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Verses of a Versifier (A Compilation of Poems)
PoetryThis book is a collection of my poems. They either sprang from my hatred, or love, or a song, or from my admiration of the cosmos, or from my longing for Momma, or any other things. I'm no Shakespeare, or Browning, or Poe so bear with my verses. :)