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Fire Child

November 29, 2021
By Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
179 articles 54 photos 1026 comments

Favorite Quote:
The universe must be a teenage girl. So much darkness, so many stars.<br /> --me


FIRE CHILD

 

Fire child, you are green and falling with comets in your stratosphere and in your longing.

Fire child, you are raining meteorites and numbers and crowning supernovas from space so ancient that light has no time.

Fire child, you are hunger, roaring and pouring in brilliant splashes, too deep for wishing.

Fire child, you are a tree in space that grows where gravity has no meaning, and weightless leaves are weighed down with space-frosted pears.

Fire child, you sleep outside black holes and stir the galaxies like a woman stirs a box of jewelry, putting on chains of stars as sweet as bonbons.

Fire child, you live beyond sound and sadness and singing and pain.


The author's comments:

This is a psychedelic space fantacy.  I've hardly even taken regular medicine before--why do I sound like I'm on acid so often in my writing?


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on Dec. 19 2021 at 2:24 pm
SparrowSun ELITE, X, Vermont
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Favorite Quote:
"It Will Be Good." (complicated semi-spiritual emotional story.)<br /> <br /> "Upon his bench the pieces lay<br /> As if an artwork on display<br /> Of gears and hands<br /> And wire-thin bands<br /> That glisten in dim candle play." -Janice T., Clockwork[love that poem, dont know why, im not steampunk]

ye are on a drug- autism- which is a pretty cool thing to be on.

Lydiaq ELITE said...
on Dec. 8 2021 at 7:01 pm
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
179 articles 54 photos 1026 comments

Favorite Quote:
The universe must be a teenage girl. So much darkness, so many stars.<br /> --me

Thank you:)

on Dec. 8 2021 at 9:08 am
Bumble_Bee PLATINUM, New Athens, Illinois
38 articles 2 photos 123 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You will be found" -Dear Evan Hansen

I really love your poem!! I don't know much about space, but I still very much enjoyed it! <33