Galaxies

Mira, you are the brightest star
I've watched you in the night sky
falling under another guy
falling asleep in another time
your mosaic is ultraviolet
casting light for the years it takes
a boy to be a man
learning to be alone
no matter what it takes

the time to break
hope that on the other side
of the ocean tides
is someone who one belongs
someone who will fight
for a long life
of love

darling, you light up the sky
like the heat of an eastern july
knowing that I cannot die until my time
by then
you'll have burned out and died
inside my mind
a broken memory
from a broken time

Mira, I cannot make you leave
you own the sky
you own me
when all I ever want to be
is alone
I'm surrounded by galaxies