ORBITAS--Free Verse--National Poetry Month

I don't know what the other people in the poetry challenge are doing today, but I'm doing a free verse poem today:

ORBITAS

I see you

Kneeling there

Across the altar

Dressed in spotless white.

Dreams fill your eyes

And pull brilliant smiles

To your lips.

She kneels across from you. 

Stars filling her eyes as well.

She is your new sun,

Your orbit tightly spun

Around her.

As it should be.

I can't help 

But feel bereft

My orbit emptying of planets

Will my sun 

Burst wide

Flinging me away,

Just another Pluto

Cold and forgotten?

No.
We are too much
To implode.
No trajectory
Pulls me away,
No foreign star
Will get close enough to pull.

We must find

New gravity
And light. 

Go, my son.
Find your wider orbit.
But never forget
The planets from which
You sprang.

You kiss
Bringing to life an Eternity
Of light
And galaxies of love. 

I smile
And know
We will remain.

© 2017 by H. Linn Murphy