“Beyond the Moon, to the Heart of Bear Love”
(for Panda, from Bearz)
Oh Panda of my heart,
I love you deeper than the black velvet between the stars,
beyond the dusty hush of craters on the moon,
past the orbit of every misunderstanding,
past the ache and rattle of these fragile earth suits
we stumble through like mismatched costumes at a cosmic dance.
I love you in the scent of firewood on frostbitten air,
in the echo of your laughter under quilted constellations,
in the taste of cherry pie spun wild into galaxies—
those whirled Pies of our strange, sweet myth
where sugar meets stardust and everything rhymes.
I love you in full moon nights
when the silver spills over your cheeks,
and your eyes—
god, your eyes—
they catch the light like dew on midnight moss,
sparkling with the holy joy
of souls remembering what skin forgot.
In that silence between breath and name,
we find each other again.
Not as strangers,
but as timeless animals—
Panda and Bear—
wrapped in fur and forever,
carved in the bones of the universe.
Ours is the love
that outlives endings.
Ours is the song
the stars keep humming
long after our footprints fade.
Forever, my love.
Forever,
your Bear.
-Bearz