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Edited by DelicateDeer at 2018-7-15 23:24
Interstellar
I remember
the first time
I saw stars.
I was just
a young city girl
slowly making her way
to the patio door, sliding
the glass just so,
making it seem that the sliver of space
between the door and the wall
was handcrafted for her figure.
The summer air hugged her tightly
as she made her way outside.
Her bare feet danced
upon the wooden floor, elevated
from what seemed to be lightyears above
the grass below.
The creak of a plastic chair
is familiar to her as she pulls it out,
as her world has been nothing
but plastic and concrete,
and risks untaken,
such as climbing trees,
for falling would leave you
in the cold grasp
of brick.
The girl goes to take a seat, yet
as she stands, she observes
the ballet of the fireflies,
their pirouettes taking them higher
and higher,
'till they're nearly tickling the trees,
and brushing against her hand.
She becomes mesmerized,
as her aunt's backyard
is now the lightning bugs' theatre.
A lightshow of bioluminesence
surrounds her,
as the dozens upon dozens
continue to dance into the night.
Then, she sees it,
A clear sky, to her
it is something out of movies, no- photoshop.
At first, she can't even appreicate
the glittering sky before her,
as disbelief fogs the lens of her eye.
Yet alas,
through the leaves of the towering trees,
she can't deny it.
In that moment, she is no longer
simply a straight-A student, a girl
with two braids, a plain jane
with brown hair and brown eyes.
She is stardust, just like all else
within the galaxy that is held before her eyes.
Her heart is the radiance
of the glimmering balls of gas & fire
that smile back at her in the distant sky,
with her heart's beat matching
the rhythm of the fireflies' masquerade.
"You like them too, don't you?" a voice
shatters the moment,
bringing her back down
to where a bunch of insects
are simply buzzing around the patio.
My aunt, an escapee
of the concrete jungle,
smiles to me. "Crazy, isn't it?
You don't get stuff like that
back in New York."
"Yeah,"
I smiled back,
the reflection of the stars still piercing
my eyes that now illuminated
with wonder,
"Crazy."
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