Space, Or The End And The Beginning of It All

Rishi Chen

Space humbles the proudest of us all

It's mere existence fates the wit-touched saints to fall

It erases the quietest whistle and overpowers the loudest roar

And forgets the oldest of ancient years-in-the-coming lore

It births existence yet always envelops its ill-fated creations

In the hit-and-run pace of the jaw-dropping nations

It’s the feeling between people sitting adjacent to each other

Like the essence of the resounding population’s wuther

It's the feeling of life approaching much too quickly as the sandy-shored wind hurdles into your hair

As the racket doesn't stop to acknowledge your care

It's the noise when pebbles skip across the floodplain that incites uprisings

The view of the cascades after the scheme they’ve been devising

When cliffs falter in their ever-effervescent approach toward oceans of endlessness

When the aroma wafts through your homely, familiar mess

It’s somehow always there in the livelihoods of the generation, 

Yet its existence has never left the melancholy station

It is surprisingly wistful yet can find satisfaction in its greatly malicious deeds

Though its briefly-overthought answers disregard all our needs

It closes in on the ones around it, squeezing, suffocating, sustaining

And it's behind the commonwealth, constantly training

It's the experience you can find in the alleyways and corridors that you can only refer to as “wild”

It's the morning when all you can see are arms over the faces that once smiled

It's the night when luminescence envelops all you know 

The ruthless, understanding, all-encompassing glow

That holds your hand and ties your diamond lace

In the wondering, depressive space

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