introduction

these are six poems about you
your beauty, your heart, your eyes

these are poems about me
my love for you, that must be unseen

i. your hazel eyes

your hazel eyes
pierce through mine
often, they lock for a short moment
and i send a jolt of my feelings to you, i hold your gaze

your hazel eyes
i wish i could swim in them forever
i get lost in the warmth, the invitation
the opportunity to build new worlds together

your hazel eyes
make me feel at home
as i rest in the silent embrace
of your irises so mysteriously alluring

ii. the warmth of a heart

when i find myself near you
i can’t help but feel warm inside
my heart is beating fast
from the hope of one last glimpse

your heart is a star
emitting waves of light

and my heart takes one last glimpse
it beats for joy, because you are near
you make my world better
i can’t help but find myself near you

iii. the emptiness of ends

ends are everything but strangers to you and i
we’ve known them eternally
as a saviour and friend
as a reaper of death set to destroy

destroy everything we have ever loved
destroy these empty ends

if we were together
our love could see no end
if i could be the one you wanted
we could dance under stars eternally

but these dreams meet empty ends
and i’m awakened into cold reality

and i keep falling down
we’re broken and bruised again
and i keep falling for you
but our hearts are scarred by the past

and ends effect emptiness in us
and we’re affected by the change

child of andromeda
you’ve changed me forever
i will remember you eternally
past the end of this emptiness

iv. the puzzle of us

we’ve traversed the solar systems
we’ve been created of a different essence

by chance, we’ve collided
by chance, we’ve shared our stories

love is all i have for you
love of you is forbidden

but what about the astronauts around
but what about what they will say

nothing they say matters
nothing they even think is right

but what about the painter of the cosmos
but what of his words

why was i handed this nebula of energy
why does it want to reach for you

cursed am i, with this choice so great
cursed am i for wanting you

i can’t help but wonder why fate put us here
i can’t help but wonder what you think of me

perhaps you gaze up at thoughts of me at night
perhaps you wish i would burn up in an atmosphere already

i’m puzzled at why i feel this way
i’m puzzled about how you feel

please never speak to me again
please hold me tight and never let go

love me until the day i fall
loving me is a death wish

travel the universe with me
travel to a point of no return

v. why can’t i help

i have no friends
but i’m sitting right here
but no one cares
are we meant to be?

no one sees my tears
except for the sun shining through the moon
as the drops of moonlight
meet my beads of salt water
falling on the ground as i say
no one wants to be my friend
even though i know i have friends
could it be that i’m just an asteroid
visiting this forsaken galaxy

some planets see me
but only the threat within
they stay close
but take no chance to join the orbit

why can’t i help you
with this feeling i know all too well
oh, dear child of andromeda
i love you more than you’ll know
oh, dear song of distance
we could be together forever

but it will never be enough
for you and me
we are scarred by the past,
plain to see

our roots are common
our goals are the same
and no one is around
to help rediscover the cosmos

vi. charred pages
from now on
i will speak of us
as something dead

as of now
i cannot trust
thoughts from my own head

all i hear
are thoughts of us
and bits of trinkets i have read

burning our book
is the only way to get over this
these unmet feelings
that fall on deaf ears like a love song

because that’s what this is
i’m in love but i don’t want to be
because i’m stuck with this curse
to love the child of andromeda