Laniakea
A Poem by Cameron-Asher Bond, 2016
Your hair through my fingers,
With all the heart-rending beauty,
And soft contrasted light,
Of dusk and delicate dawn,
My gaze,
Your gaze,
In rapturous pull,
With all the energy,
And gravity,
Of ten thousand stars,
And the
Immense inter-workings
That span
Something like forever,
Laniakea,
I think of Laniakea,
Immeasurable Heaven,
All the weight and implication,
And vastness felt in some room
In a Montana winter,
Every subtle curve and gentle edge,
The greatest wandering of my life,
Perhaps,
Silence, ‘cause no word will ever be enough,
Silence, ‘cause we wouldn’t say it anyway,
Shadows cast long,
In red morning light,
In a room that becomes empty,
In a world that becomes empty,
Leaving only you,
And me
Me being only a reflection of the
Lost and roaming heart, and eyes of me,
Rendered only in whole by you
(Photography by Cameron-Asher Bond)