The Starry Night

What stars abound,

the stars that aren’t yet found,

the stars that shine of hope,

but have departed quite some time ago,

And have only left their ghostly glow,

The aftermath of their legacy.

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I wish I could fly to each one,

as they spiral towards the dark abyss,

as they shoot life creating matter here and there,

boldly going where no man goes,

staring empty space in the face.

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In their residue,

at the speed of light,

dancing upon my rods and cones,

is a message,

an invitation to be friends from afar,

my earthly prison and my short life despair,

for science may not reconcile it’s affair,

In time for me to kiss their hands of light,

And tell them directly staring at their face,

Your light has illuminated my darkest night.

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And so, I shall yearn and mourn each photon sent my way,

And bear patiently day after day,

That I will never meet you in life face to face,

But will gather wishes from you as you fall today,

A shooting star who has robbed my pains away.

Lost Brothers

Amongst the bustling crowd, of a quiet town,

In the air full of whispers and joy,

In the town you and I grew up in,

We were little seedlings and in an instant,

We were roaming the streets as unbridled horses,

In the forgotten memory and the lucid dream you’ve been trying to ignore,

Mistakes were made that scarred, changed, and created a misty hue.

New roads to traverse and questions with answers we didn’t know,

And in that confusion I decided to fight these new shadows,

Travelling alone into the dark,

Surrounded, scared, I battled but didn’t care,

Day’s grew into weeks, weeks into months and months into a memory,

the answers to one mystery only lead to questions of another,

Everything was questioned but one thing remained certain,

I wished you were here with me,

My brother, my other half, the one I lost,

I was told that the darkness would leave the more I fought,

The more steps I took, the longer and more foreboding it got,

After realizing this was an endless struggle,

I decided to look back,

Light upon light, the one I fought was my own plight,

But where were you I wondered,

I have erased what was in me so that I could now see,

But it was too late, hovering above the clouds you watched,

At peace and waiting,

That someday we may be reunited,

The forgotten brothers of a war torn world.