Love Poem: Stardust Memories
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Written by: Bernard Chan

Stardust Memories

You and I are stardust 
unseen specks 
hurled from unknown supernovas
exploding in deep space
an eternity away, ago
carried away on galactic winds 
cosmic dandelions
scattered through limitless night  
a universe apart
random  
yet converging
over millions, billions, of years
all the galaxies, stars, gods
along the way 
somehow indifferent to our passage    
or conspiring to let us move on  

an endless drift
until
we were pulled by gravitation 
onto a tiny young planet
a speck, like us, in space 
one in untold trillions

atoms, particles, dust
now alighted  
assembled
scrambled
reassembled 
randomly
patiently
through eons
into 

you
me

and a universe shrunk 
to that one spot on this earth
where our paths crossed 

a one-in-an-infinity chance
destiny over impossibility