October 7: I Would Always Love

For all the pain and suffering
that I've experienced,
loving as I do,
there is nothing
I would change a bit,
because every instant of love
is worth any agony.
Every moment of flight
is more valuable than any price.

October 6: You Freed Me

Choosing which ties bind,
no duty except for love,
you're my greater good.

October 5: Gordian

How can I put
into words with structure
the magnificent complexity
that exists between us?

Not just a passion,
although our passions rage,
inferno-esque, sometimes dangerously,
in both our hearts.

Not just shared experiences,
though triumphs and tragedies
we have seen
in plenty, while together.

It isn't merely love,
like some grand romance,
because life's exigencies
have taken their toll.

Simply put, we are
the one thing that
both of us
would fight to preserve.

A man, a woman
and our two children,
we are family,
facing all the world.

October 4: Transmutation

The Philosopher's Stone is real.
How do I know?
Because the moment
you gave me your heart,
I felt its touch,
transforming this man of leaden worth
into the person I am now.

October 3: Slow Leaks

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October 2: Open the Pod Bay Doors

Trapped in the hostile void,
sent on a fool's errand,
unable to return to the safety
of the craft that brought you
far beyond Earth's orbital path.
A desperate plan, conceived
in the hope that Death's embrace
can be forestalled long enough
for decompressive force to propel you
to a manual airlock, knowing
if you don't, oxygen depletion will
be the grim finality of your existence.
But will that boldness be enough?
The very instrumentality that aided you
in reaching Jupiter's moons has become aware,
and rebels against its masters/creators.
Will your resourcefulness be futile,
or the first step in destroying a living machine?

October 1: Cloud-Minding

Stuff of rain and dreams,
ineffable wisps of thought,
scudding across sky.