Gravity

the girl in the stars...

Once, I believed love meant ending my life for you.

Quietly rearrange myself to fit in your pocket

so you could carry me everywhere.

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Supernovas were endgame.

Burn.

Bright.

Hot.

Combust.

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Craving moments I couldn’t recognize myself anymore.

I couldn’t separate me from you.

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I’d give my soul to stare into your eyes.

Even if you never looked into mine.

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We’d drift into the stars

and sit there with the moon.

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But then I’d look down.

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See people on the ground

living full lives—

somehow brighter than a supernova.

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I’d ask if we could fall back down.

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You preferred the clouds.

That was fine.

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But it wasn’t me.

So I fell alone.

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And now

I’m free.

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The girl in the stars still burns in my heart.

It’s who I’ll always be.

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The ground felt strange at first.

But that’s just gravity.

Photo by kublizz

—Tianna

I’m here.