I’ve spent my entire life searching for you,
The legend of your greatness repeated every day.
Everything I hated,
Everything I feared, and
Everything I wanted,
All in one wondrous being.
Always there,
Always close,
Yet we never seemed to meet.
Smarter,
Prettier,
Faster,
You were everything I was,
But better in every way.
You gave me humility,
But stole my confidence,
Paralyzing me with fear,
Freezing me in doubt,
Lurking in the shadows, besting my every move.
When we finally met today,
I was shocked, surprised to learn
That you’re a fiction,
Passed down through generations,
Kept alive in my shame.
So the day we meet is the day we part,
And I leave you knowing
There is no comparison,
No better,
No worse,
No contest,
No race,
There’s just me,
And she’s just fine.
About the Creator
Misty Rae
Retired legal eagle, nature love, wife, mother of boys and cats, chef, and trying to learn to play the guitar. I play with paint and words. Living my "middle years" like a teenager and loving every second of it!
Red Shelves
Death is a black hole. Think about it. A black hole is the corpse of a star, something once warm and bright, now come to the end of its life cycle. But some will argue that the cycle of life does not end with death. That death is merely another path we must walk once our bodies expire and our souls ascend. In that moment, when the fuel in the star’s chemical tank hits empty and the shiny matte coat explodes into supernova, the mass left behind – the corpse – becomes a black hole. We understand that, around such a vast cadaver, dimensions work a little differently in death to the way we’re used to in life. For example, light cannot escape the pull of a black hole when it hits the point of no return. That’s where it gets its colour. Space itself is contorted by a black hole. That’s where it gets its funny shape. Even time. Time slows right down the closer you get to it. The closer you get to a black hole. The closer you get to death.
By Matthew Curtis7 days ago in Humans
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