Each one has its own story

millions of years old

waiting for its corresponding person

to fill the void it long since forgot.

 

They all go through the same cycle.

Come of age, learn to make it in a world

designed to break them, fall in love,

spawn the next generation, complete

their arbitrary bucket lists and leave with

 

a sense of fulfillment. A presence desperately

needed in a place long forgotten but also a shred

of hope for the once and future king.