Monday, 6 November 2023

A Cosmic "meet cute"


 Once in a blue moon

There is a full bodied yellow moon

Rising into the sky like a lark

A solitary firefly, a tiny spark


Only when the night ascends

And the dark upon us descends

Do we see the moon is not alone

A million companions

A big fat wedding

A joint family

A rave

An empty but fully packed space


My favourites are green tailed comets

And the moons of other moons

Primordial clouds shaped like dreams

Concealing collapsing galaxies

Or dying stars and their screams


You and I are none of the above

For it is once in a blue moon

That space enthusiasts discover

Two black holes circling each other

Defying all known laws of physics

Dancing the first waltz of mystery

Like death we can only witness

We can only marvel and see


Two sifars when they meet

Collide together like bubbles

And for a brief moment

They become an eight — 8

Just for a second an infinity — ♾️


Everything rare is also abundant

For it holds within it a unique taste

Fourteen years from now

There will be another blue moon

And then another and another

The true miracle is the black hole

and not the blue moon


And we’re two whirling black holes;

two wonders

Forever and ever trying to embrace

Tied to each other with gravitational grace


A dear friend tells me

That the poets spoke of gravity

Before the scientists did


He may be right

For the lovers spoke of union

Before the holy men did.

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