A Wedding On Planet Venus

 

Seatbelts not buckled, body swinging back and forth, space, top speed, faster than light, faster than sound, faster, faster, faster: body heaving in and out, smashing against spacecraft cabin walls: shouting, fighting gravity, as it pulls me down but then disappears, floating without a Margarita in my hands. Windows small and circular--not looking out, not wanting to leave the spacecraft, tumbling in a drunken-like summersault out of the cabin into Venus. Slowly now, one foot in front of the other, foot swinging up and won't come down. Potholes catching my boots as if they were mousetraps, stickiness inside, oil, Venus Flytraps. Pulling my foot free, kicking it into the air and then forcing it down again, another hole. Complete suction.

Seclusion here, no one around, God alone with me, in over the 2000 universes, one friend, everywhere. Craters and dryness, no moisture, no human anywhere. Silence, no birds singing, no birds anywhere on Venus. Red stream of water, knew the redness of Venus. Sympathetic, she saw I had only God on my side. But she was not in love, she was love itself. I told her God is my only Beloved, and she asked why? I told her it is because He loves the orphan, widow and stranger, and Levite without any hesitation or any conditions, it is an unconditional love, a love that is found nowhere else in the world, not even with Venus. Forgiveness, takes one back in love, always there, never leaves. He is a constant friend, no one else, now on Venus, all there is, is Him. Married with a tefillin, Mincha and Ma'ariv prayers, joined me in matrimony. My God and I were married on Venus.