My inspiration for this piece was a picture a friend sent to me. i was so inspired by it and i don’t even know why but it started giving me ideas and i decided to put them into words. Enjoy!
I didn’t want to move from the spot. I just wanted to sit still a little longer and listen to the silence.
My obsession with these stars had started since I was a little girl. I felt the stars could control my fate. And every night I laid down on the bed of wand flowers, it just sparked this inner gravity with the sky. The more I looked, the more the stars grew bigger. And it kept me going. I grew bigger too. I do not know if it was just faith at work or it was true. But the stars were my constant companions and I named them each night. And it seemed like everywhere I went, they went along with me.
But our friendship didn’t last long, I started to see beyond them, I started seeing planets and universes and soon, I saw the whole galaxy. The revelation made me wonder how far behind I had been. I was always too preoccupied looking at the stars; I forgot the stars were only the fish in the sea; I had overlooked the whales and the Sharks.
After I realized this, I started to see things differently, my Eyes became a telescope. The stars were now little to me and I started to lose interest in them. I wanted to leave the earth, jump on the stars and float in space. Maybe after I conquered the Milky Way, I could control time since space and time worked hand in hand. That was my thought. And that’s what I still think. Every night I lie in the bed of flowers, look at the sky and reminisce on how my day went.
Well, in reality, the stars are my limitations, the planets are my fears and the universe is the whole world and each night, I lay on my bed. I dream of being bigger than these limitations and fears. And maybe I could conquer the whole world. And maybe after I conquered the whole world, Time would just be an illusion.
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