Stars

As I look up I see the stars,

My troubles fade as I imagine

Hunting with Orion,

And cantering with Sagittarius,

And bowing down in front of Jupiter’s mighty throne

 

I stare at Alpha Centauri;

The closest star.

I reach out, so close,

But it dances out of reach of my fingertips;

Dignified and cold, too high to touch.

 

I watch the stars try to outshine each other;

Trying so hard to show their radiance,

To show they exist before they fade.

But they are already gone.

Dead and dying, lost but still shining.

 

I watch a mother and her 6 daughters,

Rise and fall as the year goes on.

I can see the Aurora Australis,

Spectacular and stunning,

Twisting between twinkling lights

 

And I imagine the milky way,

Beautifully brilliant,

But no longer visible to most of humanity

Because we have made our own lights

To blot out the others.

Leilani Fam