The stars in the night sky shine brightest and the game is to decide which ones are still alive. From your knees towards the skies, I’ll trace the outline. To make constellations of those freckles that fall in line. Obscure shapes made to represent the fates of women and men, and ordinary beings; of smoked celestial greens and the paved over abandoned streets we walk to find a place where the ambient light doesn’t shine and we’ll feel for the first time that everything will be all right.
Though the night is dark and full of terrors, let the strength we have inside serve to shield. Even when it seems that it’s growing brighter, the world grows darker someplace else and we can’t prevent what happens next.
I’ve taken every breathe with knowledge each could be my last but that doesn’t stop me from breathing. The actions that define a life are not in what one couldn’t do, but should’ve, could’ve, would’ve done, but exactly what is done from now. I’ve tried to forge a way to make my own name, to break apart and away from the cycle that enslaves us all…but to this day, I have failed.
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