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The Daughter of Cassiopeia

January 11, 2019
By MattieFlading BRONZE, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
MattieFlading BRONZE, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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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.

                                                           
                                                                                                                                      


The author's comments:

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. 


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