Love Poem: The Big Crunch Hypothesis
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Written by: Keely Gilmour

The Big Crunch Hypothesis

The Big Crunch Hypothesis 

in times past it all had felt so distant
I was an aphid in an unkempt garden of eden
and my eyes, they were far too dim, too weak  
and the view was far too vibrant 
and the stars, 
however bright they glistened, 
resided light years away 
and the oceans, though they beckoned 
had seemed far too deep to swim 
and my world was so astoundingly vast
and I
was so incredibly small 

and then...
as if in the time it takes to exhale... 
the all expansive universe retracted like elastic 
a shimmering haze of the Milky Way now shrouds my city like a fog
and in the morning I brush the comets from my hair 
the sun, once so divinely elusive 
serves as a lamp on my bedside table 
Saturn’s miraculous rings adorn my hands  and decorate my ears 
and the Earth?
my whole world in its entirety 
exists suspended amidst the freckles on your cheek