starlight
was the
last hope
to get there,
after hours
wandering
around blue
leaves and
muddy soil.
i prayed
to who whomever
played chess
with our
frail lives for
one more
chance.
this
couldn’t be
the end.
The starlight is a soft light, far away suns poking their fingers through the sky for the penguin-shuffler dragging garbage to the dumpster and stopping to watch the snowflakes circle and hover under the streetlamp like moths seeking the moon and putting a hand up to wave and nod at the man with his dog under the pine trees, no words said, just a moment shared between strangers being people together.
The starlight used to filter through the windows at night, so bright that I could see the objects in my room. But as I got older, I wondered – was my eyesight failing and I couldn’t see as well in the dim illumination in the dark, or was the air pollution that strong that we could not longer see the stars?
starlight
was the
last hope
to get there,
after hours
wandering
around blue
leaves and
muddy soil.
i prayed
to who whomever
played chess
with our
frail lives for
one more
chance.
this
couldn’t be
the end.
The starlight is a soft light, far away suns poking their fingers through the sky for the penguin-shuffler dragging garbage to the dumpster and stopping to watch the snowflakes circle and hover under the streetlamp like moths seeking the moon and putting a hand up to wave and nod at the man with his dog under the pine trees, no words said, just a moment shared between strangers being people together.
The starlight was magnificent tonight. The moonless sky lent itself to the most brilliant stars I have ever seen. I wish I wasn’t alone in seeing them
The starlight used to filter through the windows at night, so bright that I could see the objects in my room. But as I got older, I wondered – was my eyesight failing and I couldn’t see as well in the dim illumination in the dark, or was the air pollution that strong that we could not longer see the stars?