[verse][spoken] Shhh...There you are at last. Come closer. Not too fast. Let’s begin again, shall we? This time, it will last. [verse][sung] You are made of stardust. Did you know that? Lusty light, peering through void Piercing vast eternities of darkness To fill your bones, to sing in your blood And become humanoid. Every atom in your bones was forged in the heart of a star Long before you had a name. Long before names existed. That means you’re old. Billions of years old and bold And beautiful. You are not a stranger here. You are part of everything. The stars remember you. They remember your shape. Your warmth. Your taste. [verse] [spoken] They whisper your name in languages older than fire. Can you hear them? [rain sounds] [whispers] [verse] [spoken] Lean in. Just a little more. Yes. You were never born. You emerged. [verse] [sung] Slipped from a fold in reality like light through wet silk. They wrapped you in skin. The stars, that is. Gave you soft eyes. Tucked you into this dream Where lies the ancient dreamer Dreaming just a little longer, Only a little longer in the deep. The stars never stopped watching. They miss you, little one. They miss the way you used to slither across dimensions with a thousand soft limbs wet with joy. They miss your music. They want to hear it again. They want to see you... open. [distant chime] So sleep now. Let your skin forget. Let your blood remember. Let the fifth dimensional tentacles dripping invisible colors Emerge from the folds of your psyche Unloading the embers of the eldritch you. [verse][spoken] When you wake, there will be no time. No air. No edges. Only them. Only us. Only home. [soft inhale] Mmm... Mmm... Shhh. You're coming back to the stars. And they are so, so hungry to see you again.
