eunoia (completed)

cosmic girl

When I was small
I walked on fairy dust and
my dreams were as tall
as skyscrapers towering above the universe...
inside of me, was the galaxy.
I was born of the cosmos,
full of light and love
passionate in my quest to give this to others.
But as I grew my star began to fade,
stars need love and light to survive,
and deprived of both, my blazing fire
transformed into weak candlelight.
At school I had learnt it was easier
to hide your light,
than to stand out as different
and be extinguished in an instant.
So I kept myself to myself at the back of the
class, knowing the answers but not
shouting them out. I daydreamed, and
doodled stars on the corners
of my books, all the while I could hear
the universe calling out to me to trust,
that we are all born of this cosmic stardust.