i just need to know you’re safe––

spinning in and out of orbit

flashing in the corner of my eye

please be honest with yourself

oh, come back to me, you’re nothing but a little blue planet

and i’m the sun     

when you twirl away i watch your methane forearms shine

why don’t you just come inside, take a few breaths

away from the helium in your mind, let me shine on your surface

a moment, a millennium

if not for you, then for me––

one day i will become the supernova i always feared

one day i will strip the atmosphere from your surface and return you to atoms

so for these next few eons

spin slowly, my dear

do not let the blue overtake you