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The Vast
My life is like a planet
wandering aimlessly
through the dense nothingness of space.
Friends don’t come over
When you’re a solitary solar object
Twirling through the infinite universe
A million miles away from the rolling winds
carrying lavender fields.
My lakes will one day dry up
Like a fish drowning in water
The silent thrum of space reverberates in my ears
Deafeningly loud, the blood rushing to your head
One day, I’ll hear again.
The soft music of New Moon Cafe carrying
The taste of hot chocolate and vanilla
Into my lungs.
No longer can I remember
What the stars look like
Choking the skyline above the clouds
of smog and smoke.
Was it like needles?
Pricked through the fabric of space,
light spilling through?
I’m sure no one remembers anyway.
The lake is nearly empty now
I wonder if the fish are okay.
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This piece was completed as a challenge on free verse poetry, and the main themes of the poem are isolation, and the idea that we cannot even begin to imagine the infinity that is the universe we live in, how everything in our lives is just a feature of a fraction of a percent of everything that exists out there.