First Kiss

First Kiss

You remember…

…with memory so strong
it strives to be forgot—

when the thought of the thing
dragged you right up to the wall
of space
that never could be spanned.

Impossible to cross—
and yet it was
somehow
and then

the real touch
far greater than
the feared

and still it hangs there
never to be quenched
never to unwind

a monument
of sorts

a star

a sun

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