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

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