Not ever

Not ever.

I never thought

  space

would be this

    empty

for years

when I looked

up

I saw a sky

full
of light

  warm and   round.

when night

fell

it was

even more

    magical.

at night, the light danced.

I thought

the stars

were closer.

I never thought

  space

would be this

    lonely.

I had

dreams

of flying

among

universes

of dancing

on a

moonbeam

of tumbling

along

Saturn’s rings

in those dreams

I was never

 alone

I thought

I would have

    someone

to dance with.

I never thought

  space

would be this

    cold

I had nightmares

of flying

too close to

the sun

of melting

into Mercury

of falling

through the sky

in those nightmares

 I burned.

I never thought

I would be

afraid

of freezing.