Heart and Sol

I materialized in a vast expanse of frigid lightlessness.
For ages, I crossed the distance alone, approaching no one,
My frame was impenetrable, formed of solid ice and stone,
Steeled by an eternity spent in comfortless solitude,
Until you came into my view, ablaze in the blankness.
By unimaginable force, I found myself drawn nearer to your glow.
You beckoned to me with unfathomable warmth and light,
And the nearer I became to you, the hotter I began to feel.
Scorched by your intensity, my armor started to vaporize.
The hardest parts of me were cast broken into the nothingness behind.
Recognizing the beauty in all the fragments I was letting go,
You illuminated them so they shone brilliantly.
By a charged wind, my brokenness was gathered together,
And I dashed across the sky feeling seen, and radiant, and free.
You were tremendous and untouchable, but so close,
That I wanted to fall smoldering into your fire and melt.
But I could not stay, because to be with you would have been to perish.
Although you felt so exquisite, and I was pulled toward you,

Momentum sends me ever outward and away.
So I will flee to the farthest edge of the place where you exist,
Forever altered by that torrid encounter in the heavens,
And if time allows, I will return to dance with you again.

Journey

I am
In that land over the rainbow
After walking time and distance
Through the valley of the shadow
Of death
Not my own
But of my own
In blackness I crept
Kneading the night
Feeling for anything but everything.
At last
Hope became a thing
So tiny
So barely there
And upon it I fixed my gaze
Following
Leading
Out of depth
Into galactic light and height
And it grew
Closer
Actual
I reached out my everything
To clutch it
And Hope lifted its head and stared
With unblinking new eyes
Saying
You found me.