A story about the girl on the moon.

[Raz]

There's a little girl who sits on the silver sliver of the moon.

All her stories begin with Once Upon A Time, and there is no end.

She sits crosslegged in her luminescent desert sea, and she has a beatific smile for the rest of the universe. Space isn't empty, you see...it's full of all the ideas and dreams and fears and longings of anyone who was ever alive, and all that life fills the vacuum with something better than ego and more important than sound. All of us are out there and in here and all around, and she smiles because she knows it will be alright.

The Earth will turn and turn, and it will be alright. People will come and go, diseases prosper and civilisations collapse, and it will be alright. The sun will keep burning for five billion years more, long after people have become something else, and it will be alright.

One day the sun will die too, and it will take with it the earth and the moon and every other child that loves its mother, and it will all be right. All of it will be right.

There is something better than ego and more important than sound, and it has no end.

She knows one day we will learn.

 

[(Wordy)]

I love the storybook style of this, and once again the way you use repetition: phrases like musical themes which resolve themselves.

I especially love this idea:

Space isn't empty, you see...it's full of all the ideas and dreams and fears and longings of anyone who was ever alive, and all that life fills the vacuum with something better than ego and more important than sound.

I've been going through a tough patch the past few days, but you've brought a smile to my face. Thanks!

 

[katmeow]

Raz, have I mentioned lately how fantastic you are?

 

[Doppelganger]

This is awesome!

I hope it's about me .

 

[not_broken_420]

Wow. I love this!! The exact state of mind I'm in.

 

[up all night]

Optimistic and yet still so sad. That's life for ya.

 

[drEaMtiMe*@#]

There is something better than ego and more important than sound, and it has no end.

She knows one day we will learn.

the whole piece is great but this last bit is so wise and just absolutely beautiful to me.

 

[Raz]

Optimistic and yet still so sad. That's life for ya.

I din't think it was sad...thanks for the comments though peeps! I have much love for the world these days.. %)

 

[up all night]

Maybe not sad - but when I read it it was quietly melancholy for some reason.

 

[Raz]

Melancholy I'm okay with....I think it's definitely a positive piece though...it says that we're all part of something more important and that wins out in the end, but it will make us happy when it does. Or something.

 

[noone1]

I enjoyed the idea of a cosmic woman juxtaposed with space imagery.