the girl's pov

when
i was
young

(when i still lived
hazy c e
ㅤㅤl a
   ㅤㅤㅤㅤdon days
with no pain to bring
out the bliss, when
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤthe
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤworld
was
ㅤㅤstill
ㅤㅤㅤㅤnew)

my mother
would tell
me about
the s t a r s
as we

w a l k e d

t h r o u g h

the

m o o n

burnt

f o r e s t

{my mother
was
an astroartist
shecouldmaketheskylistentoher}

-[🌙]-

when i
w a s
young

w-w-w-wwwwhen i was young

to the days when i woke up
to see two moons in the sky,
my mother and the moon
to the days when i was not
afraid  (not afraid not afraid)

my mother'd say to me

"astronomy is not about our solar system or the physics between celestial bodies, it's about everything in the universe that we want to reach. because we are all suns and moons and planets, freckles on the cheek of humanity. we are astronomy, my love."

she told me that she was a planet and i was the sun and i didn't know what she was talking about because i always thought that the only one bright enough to be the sun was her

she told me that

one

day

she'd be

too f-f-f-f-ffffar

for

me

to

reach

she said there were blackholes in her lungs draining away her life and by the time i'm older she'd be as far as the rosette nebula and as close as home (which is as distant as yesterday)

-[🌙]-

my mother taught me the courage of the stars before she left