separated by the eyes of a forbidding universe

shadowswithoutlight:

She is drifting, ever outward, careening into the darkness;
falling through an endless void, never knowing her place.
She carries the depth of vast oceans in her unsure voice—
and holds nebulous starlight within her twinkling eyes.
The purest waters of life cascade from her creamy face
as she calls out to the emptiness, hoping to be heard,
screaming violently into the lonely chasm of time and space.

She longs for a noble captain, one who knows not her name;
her fated savior who dares traverse such an infinite barrier.
Patiently, she awaits knight in shining silver spaceship to
spot her beacon within bleakest abyss; navigating constellations
of former lovers, weaving through asteroid fields at light-speed.
She wades forever deeper, battling heartwrenching gravity,
enough to break the strongest of souls under massive weight.
She is nourished only by the acrid taste of floating tears,
falling by her side into the harsh atmosphere of a cruel world.

She is searching with the brilliance of an emerging supernova,
light enough to guide heart and soul past bottomless black holes
which threaten to tear her isolated, fragile body limb from limb
dare she stand defiant against the will of the mighty universe.

The prize awaiting the wandering girl with galaxy eyes
at the end of this torturous treasure hunt is simple love,
an eternal promise of life lived out on solid ground.