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IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE, THEY STILL DANCE

ALM No.81, October 2025

POETRY

Eric Cargin

10/15/20251 min read

In Another Universe, They Still Dance

In another universe,
they sway hand in hand.
Dancing on moon dust,
in a silver dreamland.
Stars hum their blessing,
the Earth fades from view,
two souls in forever,
where love feels brand new.
No gravity binds them,
no ending,
no soon just endless soft laughter,
dancing on the moon.

April 23, 2024

I sit in the dark

Her breath warm on my lap

Watching the way sleep softens her face

I have never seen beauty like this

I have fallen for her so hard

Words scatter in my mouth

She is breathtaking

I write letters in the hush

Pages for her to find when she wakes

My thoughts curling around her like a blanket

I wonder; “How did I finally find my forever?”

Just after midnight she wakes and texts me “Babe, you moved me to tears, your letter. I felt you in every word. I haven’t been this happy in forever.”

July 12, 2025

How did we become strangers?

Inside the story we wrote together

Why weren’t my words

My hands

My hope

Enough to keep her close?

I love her so deeply, she will never know

She’s gone now

Moved on from us

But I am still here

Lying awake

Revisiting April nights

When she was the answer

To every silent question

I ever asked the dark