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twenty​-​six billion thirty​-​five

from * volume two * by charlie shuck

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Once upon a memory lost to simile and rhyme,
a wormhole was created when two particles collided.
A living and a dead world were at once side by side.
An exchanging of particles set forth a new life.

“No more empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty universe.
From an empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty universe,
Enjoy your time, ‘cause it might not last very long.
Enjoy your time. Hope you don’t end up like us.”

The particles collided and soon after there divided into twins.
They happily provided all the magic they were hiding within.
They brought forth a sun and then they lifted up the mountains.
The plants arrived right on time and animals began to swim.

“No more empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty universe.
No more empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty universe,
Our time has come, to no longer miss out on all the fun.
Our time has come, to bask in the sun.”

But inevitably, billions and billions of years in the future,
the virus of pseudo intelligent life struck this quiet little cosmos,
and wars began to break out, and the people began to freak out,
and nobody could make out why the circuits began to break down.

The twins began to wonder “what went wrong?
Where did we blunder? Should we blame ourselves?
Are we the cause of all this thunder?”
“No my dear sweet sister, there was nothing
we could do to prevent this. I’m sure no matter
what life we created, it would invent it.”

And as the eons waddled by somehow the people they survived.
They cast their bombs into the sun in twenty-six billion thirty-five.
The age of peace arrived and the twins let out a sigh.
The world they had created had matured, now they could look back
to the sky.

We can have a friendly, friendly world, if we only want it to be.
I’ll be kind to you, if you will be kind back to me.

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from * volume two *, released June 25, 2013

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charlie shuck Jacksonville, Florida

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