There is a secret sun inside my chest

It revolves underneath the parts of me you cannot see

Spinning aimlessly throughout my body
Narrowly missing the organs beating
Breathing

The parts of me that do their job to keep me going

The heart that shares the space inside
Over the years has become its moon
Crooning its lullaby to affect the never ebbing tide of emotions that follow

It is the space between these precious things that matter
Revolving in love’s elliptical pattern

Growing and shrinking
Rising and falling, only to rediscover that love’s great gravity binds all things together

Even you
Even me

This secret sun never sets
Never sleeps
Never knows that one day I will end

It does not care I have already whispered your name to the universe
It only knows it must burn

Giving birth to the stars that find their way onto the page
Shedding light on the parts of me that get lost on the

Long
Dark
Road

Winding softly to
The parts I thought were lost,

welcoming me again in the soft warm light of perpetual daybreak
that surrounds the soul inside me

There is a secret sun inside my chest

it shines for those who are willing to see
that it knows the secret sun in you

tumbling toward the space between us
falling at love’s own immaculate pace

finally colliding
forming a certain secret silent heaven

giving birth to
the universe
between us

~

Author: Michael Xavier

Image: courtesy of the author

Editor: Ashleigh Hitchcock