Before & After

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Before
Nothing stays the same, that's a given.
Hearts are broken,
Peopled murdered,
Civilizations crumbled,
yet life goes on.

Those you thought were family betray you,
Friendships you thought could never die are shattered,
And things you thought were so important at the time were really meaningless.

My life was so easy,
I could do whatever I wanted, be whoever I wanted to be, the universe was mine.
And I had five others to be there with me,
Each of us a different colour, each with different powers and skills, each with a different personality,
but we were family.

Everything was perfect, till it wasn't.

They called themselves the Elders. A group of the first beings I would know to call humanoids.
They lured us into a trap with lies and deceit and were joined by a being of immense power I now know to call Thanos.
Our power was stolen from us and contained into six energy sources, the Elders called them Infinity Stones.

We were cast out with barely scraps of our power left which I used to create bodies similar to the Elders for us.
We found a world Tesseractia saw fit to rule, the people we ruled called the place Erisiantasia,
we shortened it to Eris.

Some of our powers came back over time,
but still we longed for the power we lost.

I left Eris many eons ago to search for my power,
but when I found it, trapped in the shape of a small sphere,
alas, there was no way to conjure it out

I found all the other Infinity Stones as well,
but I never gave them to my siblings,
instead I hid them.

The Tesseract went to Asgard, the Aether to Svartalfheim, and the others to distant realms devoid of humanity
and my own power I hid on the most unlikely realm,
where Thanos would never know to look,
Midgard.

After
Years later I stare at the stars and yearn for the power I once had.
Every so often I try once again to conjure my power but maybe its for the best,
even with my power I had a hard time controlling it.
Maybe its time I stop,
start a new life,
forget the past,
but I will never forget the past
or the people I've hurt.

The memories may fade
but the images are as clear as they were years ago
and will stay forever.

This year will be my thirty trillionth birthday,
I wish to forget.



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