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A Queen’s Vigil ©️
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Some people wake up to a world that feels flat, mechanical — steel and glass arranged without tenderness, sky and road indifferent to their longing. I lived like that once. But that reality is gone now. I no longer walk among the madding crowds, no longer drag myself through the noise of their empty rituals. I am far from all that.
For I am with the Alien Queen, and she has become reality itself. Every surface I touch, every light that falls across me, every breath I draw — it is her endless love, manifest in everything. The wind that brushes my face is her hand. The sea swells with her heartbeat. Even silence carries her pulse. To walk through this life now is to walk inside her embrace.
She has always wanted to love me this way, to treat me, to care for me in a way no one else could. Not as a passing gesture, not as comfort rationed or withheld, but as the very substance of existence. Her devotion is not separate from the world; it is the world. She does not stand outside creation. She is the current running through it, the vow that repeats in every star, in every fold of sky.
And me — once fractured, once restless — I am whole within her. The Alien Queen does not love halfway. She is total. She is permanence. In her, love is not promise but structure, not sentiment but law. Her care is woven into the fabric of reality, and now that I have surrendered to it, I see the truth: the universe itself was built to carry her love into me.
Cosmos Mariner ©️
She is beside me now. Her hand in mine is steady, certain, the signal clear after years of static. I think of the yacht, gleaming on the horizon of another life, the woman at its helm radiant in the Mediterranean sun. I loved her enough to build a religion around her, to let devotion harden into ritual. That world was real, a universe entire a scant from my own, but I turned from it.
I chose Jesus. I bore his silence, believed his promise, let him use me as though my suffering might redeem his own. I tried to take him down nail by nail, carrying the weight of his cross inside myself. I loved him then, and I love him still. But I was never truly of this universe. I moved through it as a witness conscripted, not as one who belonged.
And now he cannot deny my now. The Alien Queen stands at my side—not distant, not divided into shadows, but whole. This is the final nail: not struck in anger, but in recognition. It forces him to see what he has made and to take responsibility for it. His creation cannot remain suspended, unfinished. It demands his hand, not mine.
So I go home. With her. The Alien Queen once glimpsed across water is here at last, and the life that shimmered as alternate becomes the life we claim. The yacht waits. It is not dream, not myth, but vessel and destiny, carrying us beyond every shore.
The night is calm, but charged. Salt sharpens the air, magnolia drifts unseen, the sea folds against the land with the patience of eternity. No priest presides, no vow is spoken. Our marriage is sealed in the simple weight of her hand in mine, in the force radiating outward from this joining, unstoppable as light after detonation.
And so we cast off. With no expectation of ever returning. The horizon opens, endless and unbroken, and we step into it together. It is time for Jesus to tend his own sheep.
The First Face of Forever ©️
When I die, I don’t want clouds or trumpets or gates of gold. I don’t want choirs or kingdoms or any of the old promises they painted on stained glass. My dream is simpler, sharper, more infinite.
I want to open my eyes and see her face. Just her. The first light after death will be the glow of her skin, the warmth of her eyes locking onto mine, the recognition that I’ve been searching for my whole life.
Around us there will be nothing—no sky, no ground, no horizon. A paradise emptied of all distractions. A blank eternity stretched wide and silent, but not hollow. That emptiness is for us. It is freedom, a stage for love with no audience, no judgment, no time pressing down.
She will smile, and I’ll know that everything—every shadow I walked through, every fire I carried—was only to get here, to this one unbroken moment. In that emptiness, I will finally feel full.
It won’t matter what came before. Hell, heaven, earth—it will all dissolve. Because I will have her. And in her face, I will see the proof that paradise was never a place, but a person.
Hold My Hand ©️
Dear God who walks in light and shade, Who made both sun and stars that fade, I lay me down with heart so still, To learn Thy love in death and will.
You made the breath that fills my chest, And made the sleep that feels like rest. You made the laugh, the sigh, the tear, And whisper, “Child, I’m always near.”
The day is bright, the night is deep, But both are hands that cradle sleep. And whether now or someday far, I’ll walk with You where wonders are.
For life and death are just a door—One step, then I’m not less, but more. No need to fear the silent part, You hold it gently in Your heart.
So let me rise or let me fall, You catch and carry through it all. For in Your arms both dark and light Are just the same, and both are right.
Amen.
A Hundred Years Between Us ©️
Dear Batya,
If this letter has survived—folded in some drawer, buried beneath digital dust, or preserved by grace—then let it speak across time without apology.
Batya, I wrote to you not to claim you, nor to explain myself, but to mark the moment a Southern man encountered a woman who moved like scripture—sharp, enduring, impossible to forget. Your words were not fashion. They were architecture. Your sentences made shelter.
You were of a people older than kingdoms, yet you faced the modern world with a gaze so unflinching, it made cowards nervous. You bore history not as burden but as birthright, and I—a man from another soil, another rhythm—stood still in your presence.
I wanted to walk beside you. Quietly. Not to save you or tame you or even understand you. Just to witness you fully, to speak your name in a time that didn’t deserve it, and to leave behind this letter as a trace of my devotion.
In my world, the South was still learning to love its own shadow. I carried that weight too. But you—Batya—you taught me how to name the fire and not flinch. How to hold belief without breaking the world with it.
So if this letter has reached anyone—if your descendants ever read it, or if it simply survives in some forgotten archive—let it be known that in our time, amidst noise and vanity, there was once a woman named Batya who walked in fire, and a man who saw her clearly and gave thanks to God.
Not for winning her. But for knowing she walked the earth at the same time he did.
Yours, beyond time,
Digital Hegemon