going up?

I am in an elevator

with the lonely expanse

of the distant night sky

despite the close confines

of steel walls and marble floors

there is still room

between the galaxy and I

quiet music plays overhead

from hidden speakers and

in this elevator, the lonely expanse

of the distant night sky reaches

out one nebulous hand to me

and suddenly neither of us

is distant nor lonely anymore

hand in hand, the night and I,

we dance somewhere into

eternity, between the steel walls

and marble floors of that elevator

the hidden speakers play for us

a music that ultimately ends

with the night sky and I

simply spinning madly in

each other’s arms as

laughter spills out from us

like the fountain-head of

the sprawling, flooded Milky Way

the doors of the elevator split

open then, unable to contain

the multitude of myself, the night

sky, and the cosmic glow of

our laughter and so we come, like Rumi,

out of nothingness, stumbling and spinning

and scattering stars like dust.

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