The Defeat Of Melancholia
This beach, the end of everything,
here, as Melancholia and Earth collide.
Your doomed body a new world;
all things possible now,
now, time truly nothing—
if seconds only remain
why measure them so short?
if soon we cease, what use
in cursing cessation?
No space for half voices,
time and terra firma break
like ocean; we cry out
a final big bang, molecules
in fusion, an ecstatic combustion.
Raging within our skins,
shuddering with the ground, with life,
a great high humming
we’ve found, finally,
at the end of age.
The wave approaches.
Light divides before us.
You hold it and me,
pieces of the same, all;
and then
all break apart, your heart generous
unto the last,
too ferocious
for even the cosmos to devour.
Aaron Glover is the Co-Executive Director of The Writer’s Garret, a nonprofit literary organization in Dallas, TX. His first chapbook Bio Logic (INF Press) was published in 2017. His works appear in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Illya’s Honey, the Red River Review, Chicon Street Poets, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in acting from the University of Houston, and was on faculty in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University.
