I’ll never forget how it felt

As the globe flowed out of my trembling hands like a sphere of liquid

I watched it as it fell into the void of space

Like I had lost my last shot at something sacred I guess

Panic set in and the madness settled in my chest

So I resigned to myself reticently

Accelerated towards where it had fallen to silently

Floating in the darkness desolate and lonely looking for something to hold me

Like some place that felt like home

And I know that my past could be rewritten in an instant if I could only make my way back to you

Back to our world where some form of sanity was instituted

And all I could think of was two things

The first was how could I have been

So careless, just tossing gravity to the wind and ending earth as I knew it

An alternate dimension where none of us existed

Empty of our love letter in the sands of time that we scripted

Reminiscent of a memory distant and pensive

A testament to how deeply we lived and how it glistened

The second was that if I could ever

Get back to you that I’d never let go

I’d hold you for eternity minus infinity plus a day

And find a way to get earth back into orbit around us someway (hmm)

So I left all that weight

Drifted through black holes and supernovae alone searching for a trace

Of anything familiar but found nothing

Except the overwhelming sense that I was nothing

Without you and so I accepted it slowly

Turned my palms upward to the heavens and let go

Let the abyss swallow my last hope whole

And let the cold of the void embrace me completely

As I whispered your name like a prayer and kissed my life goodbye sweetly

Floating through darkness eternal

Looking for something immaterial, ephemeral, ethereal

Chevelle reflected in the rearview sphere that was my whole world

As it burned and imploded into nothingness behind me

The only thing that survived was my love letter to you written in cursive in the cosmic dust of our memories that burned bright

As they fell from a trillion stars screaming “I love you” into the night