Today, I challenge you to take your gaze upward, and write a poem about the stars.
stardust
oh distant star
how i used to gaze romantically upon you
thinking of the wonder it would be
to one day shoot off into space
and land upon you
wandering around
creating memories
watching planets whizz by
as shooting stars sounded off their celestial celebrations
in the distance
enter science class [stage left]
as if learning that your distance from me
was not enough to dampen my spirits
the illumination of the fact that
your illumination is caused by the
conflagration of gases that make up your being
and that if ever i did manage to traverse
the atmospheric disco ball darkness that keeps us apart
and ever land on your surface to wander in wonder
that my very shoes, socks and the soles of my feet
would simply scorch
skin and sinew
reducing my very legs to bloody stumps
that is, if my whole body had not exploded into a ball of disintegrating ash
before even coming reasonably close in any way to any form of physical contact with you
so, hoping you won’t take this personally at all
but i think i would rather keep all my current appendages intact
and let any wondering
replace all wandering
and keep you simpley as a momentary regular distant head nod of acknowledgement
as i gaze outside my window on another starry night
to wish what may
to wish what might
[For the next poem, a fourteener, on the theme of Easter, click here]
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