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It is strange. Strange to always be on a singular course. To feel fate always pulling you in a direction, passing by the same galaxies for all of eternity.
You learn to see the world as a whole picture, as the small pushes and pulls of little moments are rarely seen by me as I pass by for what barely even counts as a portion of this eternity I'm soaring through.
There were times when I passed by the earth as it was forming, only to return and find it had grown life. Then I watched as humans showed up and slowly began to take over the tiny planet. So insignificant, but so fascinating in their tiny, fleeting lives.
Nothing had ever taken notice of my presence like they had. They would stare at me as I soared close to the sky, their fragile bodies pointing at me with eyes gazing with infinite wonder. The deep kind of gaze that could make even an eternity seem small.
I grew to both love and dread those trips close to the little blue planet. Would this be the time when they were no longer present to look at me with such wonder? I had never considered myself lonely, but I could not bear the thought of the cosmos without them in it again. I wanted to watch and remember them forever.
It began to weigh heavily on me, to the point that I could feel myself crumbling. I had never had a heart- what use would a comet have for one?- but I could swear I could feel mine breaking for the tiny lives I had come to love.
The crumbling only grew worse the closer I grew to them on my inevitable, unchangeable journey. Would they still be there? Did I still matter to them? Or had they moved on to some new thing? Surely they had come to see the beauty of the rest of the universe by now.
But then there they were. I could see them through the clouds, eyes as full of joy and delight as they had always been. Nothing could have ever made me happier.
But my heart had still already crumbled, and I could not stop the sorrow that threatened to overtake me as part of my shattered heart fell towards their wonderful, beautiful, and so fragile little world.