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MY WHOLE UNIVERSE
<p>I watch as my pen gives letters life.<br/></p><p>My mind beats its drums, telling every word how to dance to the rhythm.<br/></p><p>Every word has an identity.<br/></p><p>Every sentence is a family.</p><p>A smile settles on my face.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I am proud of the world I have created.</p><p>My hand is in perfect sync with my soul as I pour life into the ink. My pen is loyal to me because it knows the rhythm of my soul and never misses a beat.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Yes, this is me.</p><p><br/></p><p>I sit comfortably in my chair, proudly admiring the universe I created in seventeen minutes.</p><p>That was all it took to breathe life into an entire world.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I give myself another thirty minutes, lavishly spent admiring my creation.</p><p>After all, even a god deserves to sit before her creation and marvel at the work of her hands.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>It is time.<br/></p><p>Time to open the gates of this universe and invite the world in.<br/></p><p>I imagine their faces as they wander through my words. I imagine them meeting my characters, touching the mountains I built, drinking from the rivers I carved, getting lost in the little world I had created with nothing but ink and imagination.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>A proud smile settles across my face.</p><p>Then I press the button.<br/></p><p>Uploaded.<br/></p><p>Satisfied, I leave my universe behind and go to eat.<br/></p><p>Let the rest of the world enjoy my masterpiece, I think.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I saw a movie of the Jerry and Tom.</p><p><br/></p><p>Two hours later, I return.<br/></p><p>No comments.<br/></p><p>No uproar.<br/></p><p>The world has continued with its business as though the universe I created never existed.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Oh my God.<br/></p><p>I never uploaded it.<br/></p><p>I deleted my universe.<br/></p><p>I destroyed my creatures.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Where did the beautiful mountains go? </p><p>What happened to the silver shining fountains?</p><p>I did not even give my universe the honour of a befitting burial.</p><p> It has no grave to roll in.</p><p>Seventeen minutes of creation.</p><p>Thirty minutes of worship.</p><p>no tomb to mark that they once existed.</p><p>My universe is simply gone.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>And in one careless moment,</p><p>I became the destroyer of my own universe.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I am the one experiencing the uproar.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I stare at the empty space where my creation should have been.</p><p>A world once alive beneath my hands,<br/></p><p>now nothing but a memory even I can barely hold.</p><p>A god standing before nothing.</p><p><br/></p><p>And this,</p><p>was how my Monday went.</p><p><br/></p>
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