Cosmos

"are you sure you're not a part of the cosmos?"
i asked her
and she said that we all were, technically,
but she admitted she knew what i meant
and she said
"of course i can't be the entire cosmos,
i'm just one girl."
and i watched as her lips became the crescent moon
watched as eyes blinked closed and opened again
to reveal constellations i'd never seen before
and i saw the shining beneath her skin
like the star i thought she was
"all it takes is one girl, i think,"
i said and i touched the crescent moon with my lips
and my eyes fluttered shut along with the butterflies inside my skull
and in my heart
and in my stomach
and every inch of my skin
and i felt a new universe inside myself,
perhaps i truly was part of the cosmos too,
just maybe i was my own sort of embodied universe,
and i was crushing mine against hers,
our kiss was colliding universes and an essence of beginning,
because we were more than two humans,
we were more than one boy and one girl,
but then she pulled away and i felt myself die inside,
but i knew that she'd shown me i was special too,
and that made it feel alright
i felt the warmth of her breath so close to my own,
as i spoke to her the dumbest words i know,
"are you sure you're not a part of the cosmos?"
and she answered simply:
"i think,
we both are."