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The Daughter of Cassiopeia
She was quiet, perhaps this was not by choice.
Perhaps the stars talked whispers and murmurs
And crafted a child made of cosmic dust and
The edges of our ever expanding galaxy. A child
Who need not speak in order to express her
Innermost thoughts, but you could tell by the way
She held herself in place. She did so as if her seams
Were sewn from delicate starlight, and any faulty
Move would shift the fates. Her eyes full of stars,
The very ingredients of her being, laid restless inside
Of her. Constantly moving. Constantly changing. The
Epitome of the martyr archetype- she valiantly
Willed herself to others. She saw
Death as an aching opportunity. You see, when stars
Die, they do so brilliantly. It is not a quiet death, but a
Beautiful one. So beautiful that the remnants of what
Once was reform again into something equally breathtaking.
And that was what she was:
Life in death,
Quietness in resonance,
A distant star in the gloaming.
For the cosmos runs in her veins.
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I am a seventeen year old student in Myrtle Beach, S.C. I have had a love affair with the written word for as long as I can remember. Poetry is one of my outlets.