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Far away, a star twinkles. Here, a wasteland. How much easier it would be to live amongst the constellations, to be something... else. Anything else.

They were never here, were they?

Look at me, Blur.

Glancing in the mirror, gazing into the sky and watching a million fragments of light. One of them is you. Falling, falling.

https://youtu.be/rP9bzYXyKsw

Still haven't found them yet?

What a shame.

there's a stillness in the air

stifling, hot, stickY

there's a stillness in yOur throat

choking, suFfocatIng, violent.

bleeding out just to know you're alive

crimson red? or cadmium orange?

you stare, transfixed

mesmerized by the Hue of your own blood

hoping It doesn't confirm what you're afraid of. 

there's a space ship in the sky

VeeriNg off into the clouds

into space, whiZzing away past the eye can see.

and you wish you weRe on it, that space ship.

past Mercury, jupiter, even pluto.

instead of bleeding out Here, on the ground.

yoU wish you weRe anywhere but here,

anywhere but earth.

you wish you were in the sky

aMong those Who'd love you

embrace you, welcome you.

who'd Go to the end of Space, to the end of the uniVerse for you.

iNstead of alone

GLued to this plaNet LIke a fly In a trap.

an aLien.

lonely

on this pale, blue Dot.

Why are you so persistent? Why would you want to find them? To know if they're okay?

They were the alien.

They were inhuman.

Haven't I made that clear enough?

https://youtu.be/rF9Sqtlrm50 

I told you, they're gone. Do you expect me to believe that you've found evidence otherwise? 

Please.

Submission by Amber/Jane Doe

https://docs.google.com/document/d/199qcVwNSfSUAaEGk3znJiRXgvU_NaPfa3UtgBxKbFxQ/edit?usp=sharing