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Literary (Submission): Remnants of A Star

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Light
after light
after light.

All the stars
line up
And then slowly,
slowly,
start to go around in circles,
frantically,
excitedly,
orbiting around you.

They move closer,
and closer,
and closer.
And the closer that they get,
the stronger your pull becomes.

You pull them in,
one by one,
slowly,
surely.

All these stars,
these lights,
all about you
make you look as if you
glow,
a bright yellow light,
full of warmth,
full of life.

It takes a second look,
or maybe much,
much more than that,
to see
to really see
what you actually are.

You see,
my dear,
you are not a star.

You are
but a void.

Empty
of life.
Devoid of any real feeling.

Yet you crave,
And you lust,
for the brightness
and the warmth
Of the everglowing light.

And so you pull them in,
One by one,
slowly,
surely.

All these stars,
these lights
all about you,
make you look as if you
glow.

It keeps
your vacuum of darkness,
unspoken of.
Your hollowness,
unknown.

And so,
you keep
on pulling
all of them in
one by one
to use their light,
and make it look like your own.

Yet,
my dear,
this still does not
make you a star.
You are not a star.

No,
you no longer are.