No Closets In Outer Space
There are no closets
In outer space
Nowhere for secrets
To hide on star base
What happens here
Doesn't stay here
The memories
Go home with me
When I recall them to mind
They come back to life
I see & hear everything
Like I'm there in a lucid dream
In outer space there are no closets
On star base there are no secrets
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Let the secret go
You might survive
Another day another year
Be it straight or be it queer
I don't want to forget
What happens here
How love
Smacks me in the face
What I least expect
In outer space
Where love happens
It leaves a trace
It makes me homesick
Leaves me with heartbreak
Without a mind to remember
Without a heart to recall
What happens on star base
Would mean nothing at all
Look away back home
For true meaning
Bring away back home
The memories of my dreaming
Look not for a closet
To hide your secret
When I shake your hand
A little too long
Then I squeeze it
No closet in outer space
Seek out a shelter
For your thoughts & dreams
A safer place
Where love is not a secret
It doesn't hide in a closet
It cannot destroy you
The heart has love on deposit
What happens here
Doesn't stay here
The memories
Fly away back home
Be they straight Be they queer
When your memory flies to me
I feel less alone
And I wish you were here
To hold your hand in outer space
There are no closets on star base
Only the memory of your face
And the new memories in its place
Another day another year
Be it straight Be it queer
I don't want to forget
What happens here
In outer space there is no closet
The heart has love on deposit.
NOTE
This poem is a spin-off from Episode 11 Star date on star base. David writes it while waiting for William to show up. It comes to him.
He's wrestling with issues. In his dream, "what happens on star base stays on star base". No! Military secrets maybe. But love is not a secret. Whatever form love may take.
Episode 12 will be the bro date. David & William.
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