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archiving a couple poems from 2021,

Notes:

As a perfectionistic person it's quite hard for me to put up my terrible old poetry, welp.
Please do not direct criticism at these poems, if you are in any way inclined to. I don't write this way anymore.

Written sometime in October-November 2021.

Chapter 1: 2021

Notes:

Written 13 October 2021, according to the notebook it's recorded in.

Context: I was struggling with disillusionment about Stephen Hawking's celebrity aura, and this continued right up till April 2025. Disheartened but also trying to empathise with his story, I wrote this poem.
Nowadays I feel very little towards Stephen Hawking—an ordinary person, a curious character, somebody I used to love.

My worldview was drastically different then compared to now, please don't judge. I also tended to read poems like rap back then especially if they rhymed, so there's that.
"The moon is bright tonight" reflects a WhatsApp status I saw around that time, if I remember correctly.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Death loomed, smelling of doom,
on an impossible night,
where our star was bright.
It took the life of a good human,
our philosopher, our hero.
But who really he is,
not that, is this?
Who really is he?

...

We know him as a god,
our leader, our light.
But what if he's pretending?
Like the universe, tactics expanding?
I wonder, I question,
showing really no intention,
to end this trend.
Cutting life's strand,
that day...

...

The room was bare that day,
with a machine where out hero lay,
on the cusp of death
A sword in thin sheath,
waving about
waving around
waiting for a life to claim.
but love was to blame,
for the sword never got its wish.
That, was the story,
to the beginning of his glory.

...

At fame, he controlled, lied,
and then his fame multiplied.
The 'alarmist prophecies,'
from a misunderstood human species. (INTJ)
I think he knew he was such a member,
and he could not let the public remember,
or he would fade from history.
Yet the public, unforgiving,
amplified his mistaking,
and called him out.

...

Emotions, death, personalities,
a story of much,
physics, disability, edges,
all in one as such.
Now, here I say in 2021,
he has changed my life,
forever, in fame and strife.
I have pondered his past like the stars,
now it is time to break the mental bars.
The moon was bright, tonight,
and now, all will be set right.

Notes:

"In 10 years' time, what we thought as right will be wrong, and vice versa. Our 'god' will be there to see it."—2021 me, in the context of Stephen Hawking's legacy
I have come a very, very long way.

Unlike my 2021 self, I no longer consider myself an INTJ, nor do I really care what my MBTI is.
***
Many pages after this poem, I found the disposed beginning of another poem.

2022
Starlight shining in the bright night,
Pouring the ground with light.
So many stories to tell,
of the heroes who fell.
Five heroes, one villain,
all despised now.
A dancing swirl of history.
Remember?
...

The six heroes and villain should include Stephen Hawking, Walter Lewin, Roger Penrose, Richard Feynman and Charles Seife, all of whom can be found with a google search; however, this is only a guess.