Every atom flowing through your body, the very components of stars. The expanse of the universe, perceiving itself and coming into awareness through you. An expansion that has always been and will be.

Still our paths crossed. Perhaps, gods-be-damned, they only touched at one point, each line transversing again into infinity, never to meet again. How sad. How grand. How so encompassing of all that it is to be human. It can be so cruel at times, you want to lash out and scream, let your eyes weep and cry. Rewarding too, I guess. You have to stop more, observe more. That is what they say at least, and I do not know who ‘they’ are. Another star pulled in by gravity to live out, in a fraction of time, the terrifying and majestic reality of being alive.

There is an understanding out there, a self awareness that comes into being in the circuits of our brains. Consciousness we call it. And through those electrical and chemical reactions, desire wins; longing burns a hole through the soul. Saudade. More hurt than satisfaction, I concur.

It all takes form in such incredible ways, love for example. The most telling, in the glint of the eyes. Or in that smile. It was heaven sent, the very make-up of all that is above, below and around. Now all in my mind, it slowly fades away. The picture that was formed, now a page with frazzled, burnt edges, slowly eaten away.

That is all that is left to say.

A mere passerby, aimlessly wandering and just happened to trip right by your side.

-A.Garcia