THE CLOSET MYSTIC

and tonight,

I drank in stardust —

Tiniest sliver of a reborn Luna,

holding hands,

conjoined sweetly

with our Lady Venus —

and how connected did I feel

to generations and generations before!

for as the micro shifts,

ever-transitory,

the celestials remain —

those planets.

to them,

I am a bubble blown

by accident

from the shampoo bottle

of a baby given a bath

my lifespan shorter.

but ah,

what a gift it is

to even bear witness to them!

for those microseconds

just before I pop

and they inhale me back

into their lungs.

and oh,

I wished upon that Eveningstar,

and I know she heard me!

we smiled at each other

my mother loves me

I will dance

with that five-petaled lotus

for the rest of my days ❤️