10,000 light years to earth | Anshika Gupta

Once my teacher told me

10,000 light years past us

Somewhere

The universe still doesn’t exist

And with every step forward

it re-lives

it’s birth

again and again

Somewhere a little closer

A mother is singing her son

And a little closer

He has a daughter of his own

And in some place closer still

He breathes his last breath,

His life

Remembered forever

And when a broken lover

Searches for old letters which she cannot find

Somewhere further away,

She is still reading them for the first time,

Living, breathing, dying and dreaming

Over and over

And every love story is forever

Etched in beams of light

And when tragedy follows

Each lover covers his own

Shrouded in memories and predictions

Of a future

That has gone and is yet to come

Across words and collisions

Existing.