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A Constellation of Water Zina Bouzad
A constellation of water, an ocean full of chaos and mess. It’s difficult to see what exactly you’re swimming through. Not everything is deep sea blue, More hints of green and cold grey. But you are a galaxy full of stars. No gravity, just the Milky Way and Mars. No limitations to explore every piece of your perfection. Maybe chaos will drive us to explode into something greater, a supernova, a cosmic blast. I let you float through my void, and my harmless shallow turquoise water. And you let me gaze at your sequin-silver stars like the scattered embers of a dying fire winking down at me, illuminating the atramentous curtain sky. One day you wanted to swim in deeper than before. The same night I wanted to hold the galaxies and stars, 46
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