A Call to the Universe Sija Headrick
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She disappeared the night of the full moon Her shadow stained upon the walls of her room Constellations of stars scattered her ceiling’s surface Hours spent on the creation lying in front of her eyes With a soft smile, she looked up at Orion and shouted at the top of her lungs, “I wish to go beyond this place, beyond the cheesy moon and sleeping stars.” And her gravity could not hold on to her as she begged for something more than this life A galaxy lived inside the walls of her lungs and with it, she breathed in interstellar gas The dark abyss welcomed her war cry with a gust of wind hitting her small fragile body “Take me away into the night and capture my soul as you’ve already captured my mind.” Delicately she placed her paper creation upon her small and tender shoulders Her hands shifted into wings and she moved slowly unto the roof’s edge But, as her foot began to slip, the stars answered her prayer “Child, you cry out to us, begging us to bring you to the heavens. But, do you not see the beauty of your world?” Struck with the burden of the universe’s question, her foot stopped The silence of the atmosphere overtook her roar in seconds Her face frowned towards the moon and she realized her fate A passion arose in the deep blue oceans of her eyes as Vega twinkled brightly in the sky She yelled at the night sky’s erratic nebula dancing “Do not take me away from your world. Do not trap me among this dense and slow planet, let me explore the gods of the sky.” Among the vast solar system, the cold ghost heard her call He whispered a song of great woe into her listening ears: “You have lost yourself in our starry skies, you’ve forgotten the little things of your world, beauty in the blue skies, ladybugs crawling among the green leafed trees, The rush of water through your toes, and the feeling of love.”