In Still Life

As the solstice wanes and the full moon waxes, time perpetuates the cosmos, yet somehow suspends the broken heart. Heavy with hurt, the broken heart's inertia is too great for even time to budge. Unlike the planets suspended in space, the broken heart is suspended in time, passing minutes as days and years as aged as the pockmarked moon. It is the impossible time of "forever," perhaps; forever to collect the dust of memories, falling like an ash plume echoed from vibrant days -- days of ebullient and kinetic love. Indeed, the broken heart lies in motionless pieces, obstinate to time's plea despite the alacrity of celestial bodies. Time, then, seems to be a Janus of both hero and villain: the hero promises the broken heart that someday it will flutter once again, yet the villain steals that promise and places it at the asymptote of "forever".

But alas, the broken heart does not lie in forever alone. Hope is by its side; hope that with so many moving bodies about the Universe -- so much perpetual dynamic -- that, despite the infinitesimal probability, a falling star may just find its careless orbit careening through the unlikely window from which the moon peers and this particular broken heart lies, whereby then a collision with just enough kinetic will animate these static pieces. Kinetic energy is, after all, how the Universe relieves its energy of potential. It always has. And it always will. Forever.

From Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell, a song to suspend even the heaviest of objects:

Please Break My Heart

Please break my heart
Say it's forever
Then I'll remember
How you said forever to me

Please break my heart
I'll be piece it together
I'd rather be shattered
Than to know forever
Without you

Love is all that matters
And it mattered none to you
Love is all that mattered
And you left me
crying, sighing and blue

Please break my heart
Kiss me like never,
One kiss to remember
The rest of my life
To forget about you

All the broken hearts together,
Do they matter none to you?
I was hoping mine would matter
And you left me
crying, sighing and blue

Please break my heart
Do it forever
Oh, please break my heart