15/28- Incandescent
Oblique Strategy: Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
15- Incandescent
Why is it that I focus so intently on the stars?
Pinpricks of light scattered in the sky
Streaks of gas and helium is all
Just elements of a bigger tapestry
Loops on Orion’s belt are hundreds of light years apart
Even with a telescope I can barely make them out
Easily drowned in light from a city just a couple miles north
Why can’t I let it wash over me, too?
Wash over me
Like water, like stardust, like ash
Till it obscures the finer details
With grain and bypass effects
Let sagittarius’ bow pierce each and every little blemish
So I can bandage each up and let fade into scars
And when i’ve finally called attention to every fleeting abstract little detail
I’ll no longer fixate so intently on the stars