DIAMOND
I write
thinly-veiled
stories of my life
play chess (badly)
to keep the forces of
light and dark
in synthesis, balance
look out at the stars
each a solar
nuclear furnace
and wonder
about gold and silver
dark energy, anti-
matter
about silicon
and carbon
which you are, as
my lifeform, such
long-standing
Muse
from a
distant galaxy
asking me
to cross fifty light years to
come visit
carbon compound
you are
compressed
to diamond
poems 2 die for 