She Closed Her Eyes

She lay down
Closed her eyes
And she saw in front of them
Inky darkness.
Then stars,
Clusters here and there
Pricks of light peeking through the darkness.
Tiny dots you could only really see out of the corner of your eye
And then she saw that they were galaxies
Right above her head,
All around her,
Stars and galaxies lived on
Like she wasn't even there.
Other planets
Other life forms
Such a huge place so far away
The Universe.
She breathed in deep
It didn't scare her
Nor did she feel small.
She just felt how big
Everything else was.
She breathed in deep
And felt the world
Felt the universe turn around her
Could hear the silence of the vacuum of space
Once and for all
She could understand it all
As she lay there, seeing the stars through her closed eyes
She breathed again,
Opened her eyes
And saw her bleak, white ceiling
And wished she could see the universe again.
She wished she didn't have to live an everyday life
Wished she could go out and see the stars.
She wished she didn't have to go to school tomorrow
Or worry about how she was going to pass her classes
Or stress over her unclean room.
She wished she could live the stars.
She closed here eyes again.
She wished.

~PolarFarina