downtown galaxy - my poetry

downtown galaxy

every soul a star dotting the skyline

and my eyes are drunk on the sight

i'm afraid of the dark

but my nightlights are the nightlife

standing under a neon nebula

and i'm breathing in the blue air

the city thrums with heartbeats and car horns

look, my darling

look how the cosmos have pressed into the sides of the skyscrapers

look how they shine for us all

the universe lies ahead of us, crowded though it is with taxis

and we don't have to wait a second to fly

our stories cross over and over and over

in this constellatory mess

and all

i want

to do

is get

lost.

a/n so. um. i put this in a poetry contest. we'll see how that goes.