from the comfort of the earth the brightest star in the sky just a speck of light easily ignored but on its surface i am running surrounding me bursts of majestic white flames my bare feet skim across its molten skin in conceivable view are thousands of miles of white fire and beyond that a million more but i am running with no destination in my mind's eye from the corner of my eye the flickering of bursting gas releasing a ball of hydrogen inferno a bubble to be exact but i run my feet like the beats of a techno track like the pulse of the living a monotonous repetition of left, right, left one foot touches the coal as the other levitates then the other foot touches the floor and the first rises gliding through the air like a swallow's heart my arms share a similar pattern i am like a marathon runner, only more dislocated my face is stern with the hardened look of a man having absolutely no place to be i am distinctly humbled even the searing heat can not phase me for my soul has elevated to where no physical harm may affect me but as is the case with all humankind the mortal part of me conceives a tree in the distance a little goal for me to reach a mini aim for my seemingly pointless journey through a place i should not be this tree, it appears near one instant then further away the next and it holds the secrets of life this tree, it is like me a creature living and thriving where it should not its roots firmly planted in lava this tree, it is only unique in the fact that it is not but i know that i must reach it to drink from its wood to quench my thirst with its sweet sap there is one catch though while i am in fact on the star, there is no tree it is merely a relief for my nagging conscience a balm i will never actually reach the tree i will not recline on its cool branches for it is simply not there but in order to satisfy the yearning that my heart has i will search for it with the hope, or perhaps something more complex than hope, the sheer confidence, that i will find it.
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