The Eternal (You & I)
By JD Miller
“The eternal [you] and [I],”
Is a line I said last night,
In a joke about a memoir
That is likely never to be written,
—While holding you, and standing
Right in front of the heater—
Without fully knowing the implications
Of what eternity would mean.
But this morning it occurred to me
Like a vision of rainwater
Swirling a drain and crowded with leaves,
That long after we have ceased to be
Thoughts in the backs of people’s heads
After our names are scrubbed clean
From the sandstone of a shifting galaxy
You and I will still be
Like the light of a long-cold Star,
Still chasing the ends of the universe,
You and I will drift, quietly, listening
To the rhythm of hearts,
Beating through fingers,
Across the waters, and to the outermost shores
Of eternity.