If You Were A Comet

If you were a comet

you would be formed

of frozen carbon compounds,

water and fluorescent dusts.

A bright ice, born in the Oort cloud,

denizen of the outer reaches who,

when released on galactic tides, 

furies in retrograde, and you would blaze

your own orbit, evaporate fragments 

of your identity once caught

in the scourge of solar winds,

and you would weave sunbeams and

streak radioactive across purpled midnights

as white flames

and I would understand 

your distant message.

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