day FORTY NINE

 

Today everyone will wake up. We will want to crawl back under the covers to hide, but we won’t. Something is stopping us. Remember what that something is. Today is a day of many days. Soon, the sun will swell into a red giant. It won’t remember a time when it was a perfect blue circle of ice.

When gravity fails us, our words will tug the universe. It will cradle us in a blanket of stars and sing the song of us. We will remember.

 -- Hillary Leftwich


Hillary Leftwich is co-host for At the Inkwell, a NYC based reading series and organizes/hosts other reading events around Denver. Her writing can be found online and in print.

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