Human beings are suspended [[stardust->hanging]] <div style="text-indent: 2em;">hanging</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em;">upon a translucent thread</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em;">at the point where Earth & stars [[''collide''->radiant]].</div> Radiant (text-colour: "yellow")[GLOW.]–our defiant hearts–sends a vibrant ^^(text-colour:"gray")[echo echo echo]^^echo^^(text-colour:"gray")[echo echo echo]^^ <div style="text-indent: 2em;">across celestial fields,</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em;">electric crackle of creation</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em;">(a [[miasma->exhaled]])</div> exhaled breath ''resonating'' in every particle, birthing a new universe in our flawed image, how glorious in its [[imperfection->divinity]]! <div style="text-indent: 2em;">Divinity in the blemish,</div> aching like humanity, <div style="text-indent: 2em;">flushed & panting, gazing</div> in astonished longing at the warped reflection <div style="text-indent: 2em;">of all we will never [[become->hush]].</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em;">Hush this hurried static</div> rip away the rotting veil of omnipotence, eyes open, hands bound tight together, stepping <div style="text-indent: 2em;">to the edge, we [[fall->falling]],</div> <div style="text-indent: 6em;">[[falling->fallen]],</div> <div style="text-indent: 10em;">[[fallen->end]],</div><div style="text-indent: 12em;">to the ineffable end.</div> <script> function EmbedTwineUpdateHeight(){ var passage = document.getElementsByTagName("tw-passage")[0]; if (passage === undefined){//SugarCube passage = document.getElementById("passages"); } var newHeight = passage.offsetHeight; if(newHeight<500){newHeight=500;} window.parent.postMessage(["setHeight", newHeight], "*"); console.log(newHeight); } setTimeout(EmbedTwineUpdateHeight, 50); </script>