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there is so much space between us?

May 26, 2026

Sitting in the park same bench since the second time we met. Cigarette butts and evening grass and strangers stare–still. I don’t look down on you, I’m just tall. But you look up across the sky. You said Virgo and Libra go just well Well, As Astraea was a poet's pen yet still a hypocrite— She chose darkness and left the balance scale to adrift in zero gravity. It's quite how our story is Isn't it? Now we walk side by side, hands in pockets. It’s not that cold outside. I’m trying to solve crosswords in our words There is black coffee bitterness— I’m too young for that. But you look for answers in stars. Maybe if you didn’t look that far, when I’m right here, so close to you

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Primarily personal/autobiographical relationship narrative with some philosophical abstraction via astrology.

Multiple interconnected ideas: unrequited love, height/perspective metaphor, astrology, mythology, emotional yearning.

Melancholic and wistful with underlying sadness; longing without hope; bittersweet tone throughout.

Subdued, contemplative voice; slow pacing with sparse punctuation; introspective rather than kinetic.

Approximately 29 lines; falls within 16-30 line range.

Rich metaphors (height/perspective, astrology, Astracea myth, stars, crosswords, gravity); simile implicit throughout.

Pure lyric internal monologue; intimate first-person reflection with no narrative or dramatic distance.

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