Time and time again

We fall like vibrant, scarlet apples,

weighed down by the gravity of the earth.

We collide like two stars

hidden in the vast blanket, destined to destroy each other.

We vanish

as if the universe never existed in the first place.

Time and time again

I linger in a universe once full.

I long for the stars to align

and pray for you to return. 

When you do not, as always,

I surrender to the elements. 

Time and time again

You reappear out of thin air,

illuminating the horizon before me. 

And, as if it had never stopped in the first place,

The ticking of the universe resumes.