There were two sisters who shared everything, 

The same thoughts, 

The same joy, 

The same heartbeat, 

They shared the galaxy. 

These sisters felt each other’s emotions so excruciatingly,

It consumed the both of them, 

Until it didn’t,

Until one heart stopped beating, 

And another bled. 

Time sped up,

Pedalled ahead, 

Threatened to erase them, 

The younger left to deal with the pain that transfixed her, 

That would let her feel nothing else. 

She begged for time to erase her, 

She ceased to live, 

She merely existed. 

One minute here, 

The next gone, 

The whole world slipped into oblivion, 

The horizon ceased to exist because she had blinked, 

Her life came undone in that moment, 

Her sister was gone and she left to pick up the pieces. 

She screamed, 

But the sounds were muffled, 

Strangled. 

The world crumbled to nothing. 

Communication failed. 

They’d have to come up with a new language, 

To understand her grief. 

She is so angry at the world, 

That is all that matters in the moments that follow.

She holds on to the pain.

She thinks that if she does not,

Her sisters will cease to exist.

The grief grips her,

But not as strongly as it first did.

The grief doesn’t erase her.

She remembers her,

Her beauty,

Her pain,

The best parts of her,

The sister with whom she shared the galaxy.

Her lungs fill with air and she can finally breathe.

Some days are better than others,

Some days she looks up and all she can think

Is that her sister belonged to the stars,

That she is finally where she belongs.

The sun sets on her pain.

The sun rises on her future.

Filling her life with light,

Illuminating the blue,

Filling the sky with shades of orange and pink,

Peach and gold,

Radiating hope for the future.

She was so mad the sun got to rise every day.

She was so unhappy that the world forgot her pain,

That they got to move on while the same day played on repeat in her brain.

She knew that if the world must move on,

She had to too,

Looking ahead to life’s new promises.

She looks at the stars,

And can feel her sister’s presence so strongly.

She can feel the stars twinkling down at her,

And she smiles,

And she thinks,

The older returns to the stars,

She is where she belongs.