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soragaki — Starfire
Published: 2014-08-14 14:41:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 665; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 0
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In my youth, I was embraced by the night.Ever taken was I by that vast inky nothingness.
Ever walking towards that tiny, distant lamp.
Ever searching for something to help me brave the dark.
And as I walked, I grew cold and weary and desperate.
I looked up into the face of it,
into the vast unblinking void, and courted the stars.
One star.
I took it from the heavens where it was perfect
and made it small.
For light. For warmth.
For survival, I stole fire from the sky, and hid it away in a lantern.
My lantern.
How arrogant. How naive.
How foolish to think that I could take that fierce, unflinching light
and cage it.
I stole the fire from the sky,
but gave it nothing to burn.
I stole the fire from the sky,
and it almost went out -
but the day eventually broke.
The fire ate the paper I put it in and it swam up to the sky.
Soared upward. Homeward.
Perfect, and free, and beautiful again.
It burned my hands, so I let it go.
And now I feel a flame within me too.
One day that fire will eat this flesh and blood -
consume this lantern -
and I will climb upward, and away, and out into the black.
To court the stars again.
