I flinch at the sound of your voice
such sumptuous intonation
resort to carefully picked words
to match your perception of me
but yet too blunt, too banal
in the context of infinity

I want to dazzle indefinitely
beguile pleasantly
but you’ll just shoot off
leave my heart a recoiling shell
efficiently disposing of
the debris

and it will all happen so quickly
I will not know what hit me
before I am but glistening fragments
orbiting the sun.