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Stargazer On a small island on Great Pond, Maine I lay watching the stars while snuggled in my sleeping bag with my head sticking out of the door in the dark. There were others, campers sleeping by the camp’s fire which crackled and snapped in a shower of sparks from pine-cones. I lay there on the ground looking up, hearing the water splash up on the rocks making me feel sleepy, and looked the star. It began to swell and to swell and somehow I began to move up out into the sky, up towards the moon shining so silver and magic, in cool breezes of space dust, lifting toward the edges of the solar system and, oh, oh… I couldn't get back again the stars were pulling me deeper into a tunnel of light rushing past me until they blurred into solid white light and I was one with them, a star, a comet, an asteroid and all was bright and beautiful. I swam through the void and wondered where the sound of the lake met the stars and how I was one with it all and there was wonder at being me and a star all at once. spreading out, becoming the prickly edges of infinity, blazing rings of galaxies bubbling my sides. I was…gone. I felt the tug of something, something of me and it began pulling me down, backwards through the tunnels of time and light and the star warmth vanished, left me cold, colder as I was pulled back to the heaviness of my body waiting patiently on the hard ground. I felt bad, like crying, until I looked back up and remembered I was once one with it all, all, and I fell asleep. |
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