Hollow Orbit
Drifting past the third ring of Saturn, don't call it running Just a one-way ticket out the atmosphere, and nobody's coming Stars don't speak, they just stare — cold, ancient, unbothered I packed my grief in a black hole and watched the silence swallow it after Every planet got a shadow side they don't show in the textbooks My mind is a cosmos, man, and nobody's takin' the next look Smoke curls up like a galaxy arm, slow and deliberate I float inside the music 'cause the outside world I can't inhabit it Telescope lens cracked but I still see light years of distance Gravity lied — I been untethered since I first lost my patience Time is a myth when you moving at the speed of your own thoughts The universe expanding, and I'm somewhere in the spaces it forgot Somewhere between the stars and sleep Where the signal gets too weak to keep I dissolve Hollow orbit, round and round Looking for a ground that don't exist Hollow orbit, no sound Just the hum of everything I missed Out here where the dark is all I know Hollow orbit, letting go Moon got scars that the sunlight tries to cover every morning Remind me of myself — facing up while quietly mourning They say space is cold but man it's honest, no performance needed Every star you see already died, the light just hadn't left yet That's the thing about the pain — it travels at the speed of remembrance You feel it years after impact, full of slow, beautiful vengeance I breathe in stardust exhaled by some ancient supernova Smoke thick as a comet tail, orbiting the moment over No gravity to keep me grounded in what anyone expected I became a dark matter man, invisible but still connected The universe don't owe us nothing, she just does her rotation And somewhere in that silence is the closest thing to salvation I used to think the dark was something I could navigate Now I know the dark is just the space where light arrives too late And I'm okay with that I'm okay with that Float... Hollow orbit... hollow orbit... Round and round and round Out past where the signal's found Round and round... Just the hum... Just the hum of everything I missed...
