Prompt #446
Choose one or more to inspire your piece.
We are all made of stardust, trying to remember the sky.
Reality is a mirror polished by imagination.
To know yourself is to meet a stranger everyday.
Reena’s Xploration Challenge #446
Trying to Remember the Sky
We are all made of stardust,
trying to remember the sky.
Perhaps that is why
we keep looking upward.
Why a single star
in an otherwise empty night
can make us stop.
Why we search the darkness
for something familiar
without knowing what
we expect to find.
Maybe some part of us remembers.
Not with the mind.
Something older.
Something buried beneath
names and years,
bodies and borders,
beginnings and endings.
We came from stars.
Iron in our blood.
Calcium in our bones.
Carbon beneath our skin.
Ancient pieces of exploded suns
walking around pretending
we are ordinary.
And perhaps love remembers too.
When someone disappears
beyond the horizon we understand,
we still search for them.
In dreams.
In songs.
In feathers.
In strange coincidences.
In the star that suddenly seems
brighter than all the others.
We send our own little flares
into the darkness—
Are you there?
Sometimes there is no answer.
Sometimes the answer arrives
in a language only the heart understands.
A memory.
A feeling.
A warmth beside us
when nobody is there.
And perhaps we were never
trying to find our way back
to the stars at all.
Perhaps every light
we have ever loved
left a little of itself within us.
So when the night becomes unbearable,
we do what stars have always done.
We burn.
We shine.
We send a flare into the darkness
for someone else who has forgotten
where they came from.
And whisper—
Look up.
You are still part of the sky.
💜✨
With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
https://ditto.fm/silenced-but-not-broken
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