i've been told time and time again that we are made of stardust, to the point where it's not even poetic anymore, it's just science. and while they're something beautiful in chemical reactions and the attraction between us and the earth's core, there is nothing beautiful about the way biology was ruined for me in seventh grade when we dissected frogs and i realized that's actually what we look like inside- we don't house constellations or milky ways or anything worth staring at (but even still, i couldn't look away).
i wonder if there's any chance of us being rescued from our flesh, i wonder if maybe one day after we're turned to dust again, our remnants will break free of earth's gravity and we'll get the chance to be stars once more.
(i wonder if the reason we reach towards the sky at night is because we can feel our brothers calling us back home)