Children of the Stars

Looking up to the heavens at night. It is one of the most amazing sights I have ever beheld. 

Stars. planets. Galaxies. Even Black Holes.

What is this?

The cosmos.

The Universe.

Our Universe. Ours.   

Now, the questions that are always being asked over and over, day and night, night and day . . . 

Is it the only one?

Are we the only Universe in existence?

Is this all that we will ever know?

Let me tell you what I believe is the truth.

Multiverse more than one there has to be there has to be it's where I should be

Hey, ain't such a far fetched idea. It actually makes total sense. Maybe certain events happen due to this . . . 

I continue to ponder over this just like every other time I am able to get a glimpse of the sheer beauty that is the bright starry arc of the Milky Way over my head. Home is out there somewhere. I can't see it from where I stand. It doesn't take me long to locate other well-known features of the Australian sky:

Crux - The Southern Cross

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

Sirius - the Dog Star

Orion

Betelgeuse

Then there's what appears to be a small crack of light near the Crux . . . wait a minute. Why is that there? It shouldn't be there yet. Wrong time of year.

I blink.

Still there.

I close my eyes for a minute before opening.

Still there.

I sigh. It's not the first time I've seen it. I saw it this time last year in the exact same location but I still can't figure out what it is. Maybe . . . just maybe it's my way home.

I have to go I have to go I have to leave let me leave let me leave now

I've learnt to keep to m'self about these things. Humans are judgemental beings. They do not understand things the way someone like me - someone from the stars - does. I can see what others do not. 

I'm - I'm different. Always have been. Always will be. 

I mean obviously. I ain't exactly human. I'm a "star child".

You don't belong here you freak you aren't real you shouldn't be here I wish you would go die die DIE leave us in peace go back to whatever hole you crawled out from you demon from hell hurt hurt hurt HURT  

I find things taught here on Earth to be boring, especially if I understand them. I just . . . I just think differently to most people.

I've always known I was different, even before I came here. Maybe that's why I took the crystal - the one that brought me to this backwater planet which you humans call home. Things on Earth feel wrong to me. It's not the same. 

You are not alone. You may think you are, but you are not. Trust me. I know.

Let me go home let me go home don't keep me here don't keep me here - leave me in peace I have to stay this place might need me - no let me go let me go let me go

What you people call 'multiversal theory' is a cinch for me.

Easy easy so easy so true so easily true easy easy easy

Perhaps this is why I prefer being along with the stars even while I was home. Too many people and thoughts ruin my mind. 

Interfere go home don't stay you don't belong let me go let me go LET ME GO

I raise my hands above my head, the crystal of starlight in my hands. 

Home home home home the sky calls to me home home home home

I grin as light engulfs me. I shoot for the sky, the stars, my home.

Wanderer you don't belong anywhere too different too powerful too different too powerful leave leave leave leave leave now leave child of the stars