MealynWenyas

         She told me she wanted to gather up the stars and blanket herself in a surreal luminescence. When we were younger, these wistful dreams were our only tether to each other. I remember the days when we could talk about the heavenly presences as if they were only an arms length away. Yet always a certain yearning was present, as if some unknown friend waited beyond the cosmic lights.          When each of us was twenty-nine, we joined the Armed Forces of the Republic, hoping one day we could see those distant dreams. Both of us, recognizing the rarity of opportunities for space travel, focu