The Diary of a Fallen Girl

six degrees of the universe

1° You found me where the Milky Way and a black hole touched to form a rip in the fabric of the universe. I was torn in between the two, even though I had long-since realized that could exist in neither. I have the pull of a galaxy while trapped in the body of a fallen star, and my own gravity fights to collapse upon itself.

2° By some strike of fate, we existed in a dimension where everybody was deaf and mute and we were the only ones who knew how to guide ourselves. In a reality full of blind madness, your voice was easily noticeable over the silence of roaming hands and messy crying. In a world full of black and white, you juxtaposed against the sky.

3° You guided me to a place for two of our kind, somewhere hidden between the red lights of Saturn and the intangible sights of gaseous planets. We could breathe there in a way we never could here.

4° Even though everyone around us was assigned to their own fates and had their stories permanently etched in stone, we seemed to make up our existence second by second. There's a certain excitement to the cluelessness of what will happen in the very future, and there is also a deep loneliness of the not-knowing.

5° You had the ability to travel freely between universes and dimensions, while I was bound to a small town full of sadness and bad memories. One day, you told me you would take me far away if you could, but it did not comfort me in the way you intended. Instead, knowing that even somebody as open as you couldn't free me only proved to trap me further.

6° A sight is only interesting the first few times it's presented to you. After that, it becomes all too familiar, and the excitement of unfamiliarity loses meaning. Soon enough, you will grow tired of your own company, and we will part ways like the universe had intended for two of our kind. I will find you in another life, and you will take me far away; if we ever meet again.