A Star Is Born

We traveled light years

Jumping from star to star.

The universe out highway.

We sang with Aries.

We danced with the Gemini.

We eloped under the Milky Way,

Orion as our witness.

Then, we took a dip in Ursa Major.

We swam in the Aurora.

Days, we spent, or was it merely hours?

Our childlike imaginations free

To explore whatever we dared.

A Crab, A Bull, A Goat

Were all pets to our fantasy.

But, now, you lie there.

I half-hope you'll appear

To play with me again.

The constellations ask about you.

That's what's so unbearable.

But, I know you're

Going to appear once again.

Though, the writing on this

Stone threatens otherwise.

I know you're only waiting.

After all,

Everyday,

A star is born.

Flicker

A star shoots across the sky,
Many lightyears away.
A wave trickles into shore,
On some remote island.
A stone falls from its perch,
Down a cliff, it rolls.
A fire burns its last ember,
In a childhood campsite.
A leaf falls from a tree,
In a distant meadow.
A lamplight flickers,
Somewhere down the street.
Snow melts from the rooftops of your neighbors houses,
Much like childhood dreams dissipate, into nothingness.
A bug is squashed under your shoe,
As you walk down the sidewalk.
The love in your heart,
It doesn’t die like these things.
It can only expand.
Expand into more love,
Or into hate.