She blew out the stars
Like b.i.r.t.h.d.a.y candles
Made wishes on

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tomorrows


She hid away so she wouldn’t be a burden
And whispered her problems to the constellations
In hopes that a guardian a.n.g.e.l
Would fall from the midnight clouds

She stayed awake ‘til sunrise
And tucked the moon into bed

With pupils the size of Jupiter
And shooting stars streaking bloodshot across her eyes
She traipsed toward the universe


Tears like meteors
Digging graves into her skin


She’s the sun in a lunar eclipse
Turning her back on the world
And leaving it to darkness

Abandoning the world
Like her dead-beat dad did with her



She’s never seemed so perfect.

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