Like a star you shine so brightly, like the guiding light I’d never been granted.

There it is. I can see it, clear as day, though the ebony disease has long since devoured me into its abyss. It’s chains already engraved within my arms, already embedded into my body. Try as I might to stretch out my hand, I am restrained yet again. All that I wish for, is to feel its embrace. To treasure it in my hands. Once. Just once! Call me selfish, greedy, slander me to your heart’s content. I am but a mortal servant in this infinity, no purpose, no goal, here to merely exist. What do you care for my past, or my future? I am me as I exist in the present. And as it is now, I am imprisoned by this misfortune.

I have always perceived humans to be rather esoteric things. To clarify, I speak of humanity, not humans themselves. No. in fact, now that I think of it, every living organism is so inexplicably obscure in their mannerisms. I feel this undying curiosity to delve deeper, to understand this space around me.