Outer Space

Written by Eva Liu, Grade 12

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Illustration by Katherine Chui

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Losing gravity, pulled up by Fate

To enigmatic and intricate outer space

Where the y-coordinates of molten-gold stars are

Functioning with letters of the alphabet

An undefined equation that discreetly scintillates--

Chosen words and broadcasts to my secular hands

Within a millisecond, my strange fingers are bewitched

By the scorching rays of the Sun

The nonsense starts to breathe: : :

With feelings -- and -- heartbeats

Ambling around, slapping the planets into reality

Yet against the explicit logic of my mind

Pitched words of exactness and truth.

I am irretrievably lost in outer space

Floating, fearful of the unknown galaxy

An astronaut, my head inside the helmet of poetry