I don’t believe in astrology.
I don’t care if you’re a Scorpio or a Gemini
or whatever sign is supposed to ruin my life this week.
The stars don’t write our stories
we do.
And yet
Some things about a Virgo stand true.
Like the way I double-check my words before I send them,
like the way my mind is a never-ending to-do list,
like the way my heartbeat stutters
when things slip out of my control.
I am not my zodiac sign.
It doesn’t tell you the way I love,
the way I crack a joke to hide the panic,
the way I can hold a room together
while falling apart inside.
And yet, if you put me and Virgo
in the same room,
she might be stardust
all mystery, all glow,
a constellation only visible
at the right time, at the right angle.
And I might be flesh and bone,
breathing too fast, overthinking too much,
a mind that never slows down
even when the world begs me to rest.
We are not the same,
but somehow, we are.
Not because of the stars,
but because we carry the weight of the world
and still find a way to stand.