...This week’s Challenge: Provided by Angela A. (Yeah, that’s me!) Start out with something small. It can be a rock, an ant, anything your heart desires. Write a poem, short story, an essay, about this object. Make sure that you write at least 200 words, if it’s a story or essay. If it’s a poem, make it at least 30 lines.
...Jeremiah fingered the telescope, angling it toward the sky. He often loved seeing the universe in its glory. Something about the way the stars lined up, almost as if they did so only for him. People he knew considered it idle idiocy. He considered it a way of living.
...No one understood the endless days, weeks, and years spent in the dark, studying, staring, eyeing the patterns. Those stars told him all he needed to know. They never ridiculed him, nor sought any communication, never set out to do anything other than be there.
...Countless women had come out to his patio to oooh, ah, be at his side. Yet at the end of the endless months of his solitude, of taking to the sky instead of paying attention to their needs, they sought companionship elsewhere. Not he blamed them. Nor could he give them what they wished.
...Ache did permeate his heart when they left. It lasted not very long, for when he gazed at his reason for existence, the constellations that comforted him, it left him bereft of caring for anyone, for anything else. Maybe he had been born on the wrong planet?
...Sighing, he put up his equipment, walked inside, went to bed for the night. And, dreamed of the stars outside his window.
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Thanks for sharing with "The Surreal Circus".
Take care,
Chris
Thanks Elsie
Thanks for sharing with Triple Name Club.
Thank you for taking the SatWE challenge.
Sometimes our passions are to big for us to comprehend.