Gravity

Christopher

For months I did her thing

and it was my thing too,

Maybe not as much,

but I believed in it too

Because even before I met her

I thought the world was dumb.

Why can’t she see that there’s more

than one way to look for meaning?

Annabelle thinks words

can change the world

And maybe she’s right,

but does she know

It took only three minutes to create

all the matter there has ever been?

That it took less than a second

for gravity to appear?

That we can still hear the buzz

of cosmic radiation, 90 billion trillion miles away?

I think if people knew

these bigger things

They’d realize it’s crazy

to kill yourself for fashion.

That’s all I was trying to tell her

but she shut me out

Like my opinion wasn’t

as important as hers.

When she turned her face away

from my kiss, it made me feel heavy,

Like a field of gravity

had invaded my limbs.