Enigma Weekend Edition: '6 AM Thoughts' by Keira Duryee

6 AM Thoughts
By Keira Duryee

I am just a man

And you are just a woman.

That’s as simple and complex as it gets.

We were two complex solar systems.

We are made up of planets that don’t particularly serve a purpose.

But that makes us more beautiful,

Yet more unpredictable.

One day, or night, I don’t know which it was--

Your asteroid danced across the empty space that I called me.

And I decided to dance with you,

Because that was the only thing I could do.
But one day, or night, I don’t know which it was--

You vanished.

I felt an empty void inside of me that you temporarily occupied.

Nevertheless, I called it love.

I guess I should’ve known you weren’t going to stay.

You were meant for a bigger galaxy.

That makes me feel emotion which should be called sadness,

Or is it a sense of unkempt anxiety?

Either way, I guess we were never really meant to love each other,

If that’s even what it was.

Yes . . . I truly believe I loved you.
I am just a man

And you are just a woman.

That’s as simple and complex as it gets.

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