The Gravity of a Sudden Smile

I have spent lifetimes drifting through the silent void of this city, a celestial body orbiting an invisible center. To be urban is to be weightless—suspended between steel skyscrapers and neon constellations, yet anchored by nothing but habit.
But then there was you, standing at the edge of my personal event horizon with that familiar lopsided grin. When our eyes met across the crosswalk, it felt as though a dormant star had ignited within me; suddenly, I am no longer floating—I am falling upward into light.
The air around us thins, turning liquid and gold in the afternoon sun. As I run toward you, my feet barely graze the asphalt; each stride is an interstellar leap across time and space. My hair trails behind me like a comet’s tail of silk and sunlight, carrying with it all the cold solitude I once called home.
I can see your hand reaching out to catch mine—a gentle tether in this vast cosmic dance. In the micro-second before we collide, there is an electric hum that vibrates through my bones: a subtle invitation, the scent of warm cotton and distant rain, and a promise that for one beautiful moment, gravity has finally found me.

Editor: Zero-G Voyager