HUMBLE SPACER 6 JAN 3307 (perpendicular)
07 Jan 2021Igli
I have proof. But I will not tell anyone. Because no one will believe. It really exists - the perpendicular universe. I've been there and... it must have kicked me out. I doubt that I can ever enter it again. It is so beautiful and just and free from the sorrows of our own universe, and me - I am simply not fit for it. Unworthy.So, the story was like this. I always had poor health and the only cure that kept me going was sold at numerous bars throughout the galaxy. Remedies came in different forms and colors, from expensive liquors and brandies to cheap booze and beer. Once I was sitting in a small and quite dirty cantina on the lowest level of Descartes Station and was carefully measuring a precious medicine for my permanent ailment. I had been healing myself for quite some time when it happened...
She came into the hall - the most charming lady I had ever seen! Regal posture, thin and elegant - her walk was like a flight of a fairy - a golden path stretched under her feet. Shiny skin, long wavy hair - like a burst of an autumn wind in the branches of a birch tree. Her eyes - like stars - burning deep into the soul. Her stare was imprinted forever into the retina of my eyes. I would see those bright green stars every time I closed my eyes. She was dressed like a queen - in crimson and gold.
I had never felt so shaken in all my life. Her lovely visage filled me and pushed away the foul, petty and cruel universe that I used to call my home. Instead I was filled with emotions that I had never thought possible. I felt serene and secure, like everything was in place including me, and I no longer felt like I didn't belong. I felt love. Unfortunately the bliss didn't last long as I passed out and collapsed on the floor.
I came to my senses behind the bars in a cramped police station. Soon they let me out because they had nothing to incriminate me apart from some broken dishes. Those I payed for. I rushed back to that bar. I had a hope - a desperate and foolish hope. I asked the barman if he had seen an incredibly magnificent lady the day before. I tried hard to describe her godly appearance but he evidently hadn't seen her. I told him that she wore red and gold.
"It must've been Affordable Sally then," - the barman said - "No one else wears such awful red and yellow gown in here. She has a day off today, but you try tomorrow. She doesn't charge a lot. And be sure to visit a doctor afterwards, he-he-he". I couldn't remember much besides that. I was deep in thought. I knew what I saw couldn't belong to our bleak and stinking world full of miscreants and losers like myself.
She came from the perpendicular universe. More precisely, it was me who erroneously entered her world - of beauty, order and love - for a very brief moment and immediately was shoved out. And the pain would be mine forever...