Every Ache Births a Universe

By Debdatta Bajpai

This ache isn’t earthly.

It is of the soil that hasn’t formed yet. 

It is of the metals still burning in the stars. 

It is of the mist that will settle down,

to form galaxies.

This ache is of the birth of a universe

in me.

I am not earthly. 

I am a fleeting moment,

When everything has just collided,

when everything will piece through each other

and part ways.

I am just when eternity blinks,

and I become a cosmos.

Born out of the ache in me.  

By Debdatta Bajpai