This universe is vast everyone likes to say —
but stable periodic orbits are still hard to find
You flew by and were captured in my heart and mind
I thought we’ll fly around each other forever
But forces were created strong enough to sever
The attraction not as strong as the repulsion
Your escape velocity was far less than I expected
Our perturbations greater than what you willingly accepted
Perhaps our initial conditions were never properly defined
Propagated states never translated into maneuvers refined
A trajectory requiring no change being stable was but a fable
Unaccounted forces and torques over the span of a year
Set you on a flight path flung far away from here
