"You have to know when to come home, and its time to come down now."

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I lay in the empty space air, that familiar feeling of not being lonesome in my loneliness, just feeling spaced out. My space suit feels heavy even though there is no gravity, and its hot, even though space is supposed to be cold. My ears burn and my lungs feel like they aren't breathing, but I am calm. Not serene but, calm. My tube for oxygen trails and loops downwards to earth and hangs low in an open field with a huge beautiful tree. That's where she waits for me. 

I've been in space a while, I've been lost and traveling, finding world after world, but they all ultimately still died. "Come down to earth with me, feel the grass and smell the flowers, come back home to me." I didn't know who she was, but I searched for her voice everyday. Her voice is what kept me alive, her words and the thought of meeting her. But now that I've found the planet she waits for me on, do I want to go? I'm so scared. "Come down with me." I think I've always been scared, scared of rejection, scared of being left alone again. "Do I have to..?" I stare out at the vast blackness of space and glance at the stars, I've been running for too long, I eventually have to find my way back down. "Do I have to...." 

"You have to know when to come home, and its time to come down now." I turn slowly and look down at the planet below. On earth, the beautiful girl walks up to the tube and holds it in her hands. "My planet helps you breathe, you can feel safe here, you can live here, with me. You don't have to be scared anymore, because even if this planet dies, we will both go with it." I breathe calmly for a moment and listen to the breaths in my ears, I can hear my own heart beat in the still silence of my suit. I grasp my breathing tube and slowly start to descend holding onto the tube for dear life, being careful that every movement I make is slow and even. 

Eventually I am floating just above where my tube starts. The woman, not being able to see my face, or any of me really, stares at me. She has never heard my voice, she has never seen my face or has ever heard of me before. She merely has just been talking to someone who she hoped actually existed. She stares at me now, floating just above her some ways away, and she walks to me slowly. She reaches out her hand for mine as high as she can reach, "You can come down now, its okay." 

I hesitate and hold my tube close to me, "W-what if you don't like me, or who I am." My voice sounds muffled and almost muted in the suit. "Well, I've been talking to you for quite some time without knowing who you are or if your alive or real. I've never seen you or heard your voice back, if you were so scared of me not liking you.. well that's silly." She smiles at me for a moment, but it drops and she has a look of sympathy as she holds out her hand more eagerly. 

"Its silly to think that the person your destined to be with doesn't like you. I don't even know who you are, but I love you.. do you love me?" I take a deep breath and I pull myself forward and I hang onto the tube for one last second, I look up at the stars that I can no longer see, and I look back down at her, and I grasp her hand. I let go of the tube and it falls from the place it was hovering to the grassy ground with a muted thud. I look at her face, darkened from my helmet, and I slowly let go of her hand to take it off. As the helmet comes off I feel warmth rush to my face and body and air fill my lungs. 

At first I feel dizzy and euphoric, and as I glide over to the beautiful woman, her face is lightened and happy. I let my heavy suit fall to the ground, my black clothing soaking up the sunlight and heat. I grab her hands with mine and I look into her enchanting eyes. "I love you so much. You have brought me peace and serenity when I needed it the most, and you have calmed some of the worst monsters in my mind. The thought of you was always there when I felt alone. I have loved you for many moons and many stars. I might have even loved you in other lives. I love you more than any words could ever explain."