She distances herself
Traveling on her way
From his radiance and heat
Wishing she could stay
Watching him with glances
Over glaciers of apathy
Too hard to rest on
Too cold to comfort
And slowly from her view
His light fades
Dimming on her way
Through her heavy atmosphere
His heat
Now barely touching her skin

The fields of the past
Are mountains of the future
The depths of the oceans reach
To the clouds high above
Weeping for the river
Born to feed the land
And all the colors given
Existing from his hand

Ever changing on her way
Making little changes each day
The cold and dark surrounds her
Her gown of white turns gray

Before her now
Only the empty black
Interrupted
With all these distant points of light

And maybe
Maybe her hero is there
Waiting
Reaching to her
With the bursts of gamma
Light years away
And the life and death
In random clouds
Of iridescent dust
Between the galaxies
Spinning to their black hole doom

And she wonders

Looking back
At his pulsing light
Remembering how he touched her
Hands of warmth
Hands of love

And she wonders

What if I die this day?
Forever lost in this universe
Frozen and empty
Uncaring and unforgiving

And to this heartless universe
An insignificant amount of time
The eons collide
Stretching the boundaries
Of what is yet to exist
And in a second of time
The planets make their solstice
And a day goes by
When the comets make their return
With their messages from the heavens
And the years are measured
With a kiss from a distant star
And in her lifetime
This galaxy spins one more time

A billion years spent growing
And a billion more to learn
And a billion more to love
And a billion more…

Veins of ice
Web across her skin
And still behind her
She can sense
The heart of her hero
His loving light
Forever shines