It doesn’t matter

that the moon is
moving away from us
3.8 centimeters a year,

or that one day the sun
will swallow us whole

and every single
thing we love about our
tiny speck-of-dust planet
will be reduced to ash.

They’ll say,
“The sun loved the inner planets
so much, she consumed them.” 

It’s almost romantic, our fate.

Mars will bow his head
in shame at not being chosen,
but he’ll bear the scars from
her radiance like medals.

The outer planets
won’t be able to tell 
a difference—
they’re used to the
sun’s cold shoulder.

But still, none of this matters.

Because the moon is
still close enough to reach out
and take between your fingers,

still close enough to hold it
in your palm like a quarter and that’s

twenty-five cents worth of love,
right there in the sky for anyone to take. 

You can buy love.
It’s just going to cost you the moon.  

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