Ad astra
Latin for to the stars
something that we've never done yet
but we've gone near.
We've never gone to the stars
we've reached the not-quite-emptiness that surrounds them.
We've jumped up to reach the chance
but never got close to brushing our fingers across its surface.
Ad astra
is like a promise
it promises what we could reach
what we can reach
just not quite yet.
I don't know what this is
whether it's summer really sinking in
or if it's something else
something more
something worse.
I don't want to turn into this
a puddle of negative feelings and boredom.
Everyone always thinks that people act a certain way to please the people around them
to code switch to what everyone else would want
to blend in
and that's what I do, too
except most of what I do
As it turns out
humans always
always
learn the hard way,
can never take the safe route.
We're that stupid, yes
but without human stupidity we wouldn't know about the pineapple
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