love letter to the milky way

love letter to the milky way by Drew Dellinger

I want to tell you about love 

There are approximately 1 trillion galaxies

I want to tell you about

In the Milky Way there are about 100 billion stars

I want to tell you 

Love is the breath of the cosmos     

I want to write a love letter to the Milky Way    

Everything is an expression of the galaxy

My 30 trillion cells 

The four noble truths 

The eight-fold path 

The five precepts 

The seven energy centers of the body

Everything is the Milky Way 

including my lover, and every kiss of every lover that’s ever lived 

The deep sky 

The ubiquity of spirit 

The DNA of dreams 

The interlocking patterns of the cosmic constellations  

“Cosmos” and “justice” are synonymous with beauty but parts of the Milky Way don’t give off light 


Sometimes it feels like I’ve got Ground Zero in my heart    

The dark sun bleeds shadows 

The dark sun leaves shadows on everything 

The forecast calls for scattered to broken skies    

If there wasn’t so much love there wouldn’t be so much pain 

It’s like love is the nervous system of the universe bringing us joy and sorrow    

I inherit the voice of the Milky Way in my dreams 

The entire galaxy revolves around a single drop of wine 

Your skin the texture of the cosmos the religion beyond religion I want to know you like the wind knows the canyons or the rain knows the rivulets 

Lightning is continuously striking in 100 places every moment 

The universe spills through our dreams 

The future belongs to the most compelling story 

Even the word “love” is not adequate to define the force that wove the fabric of space/time    

If we could sense everything at once like Krishna entering history with all the memory of his past incarnations then I could tell you about love

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