March 18, 2024Poem
I miss you so much.
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I miss you so much.
It is easier
To look at the stars
As a heavenly disguise
A mummer’s mask
A distraction
A merry twinkle
The magic of their appearance
The way they rotate
Around Polaris
Shimmer and blaze
In a fiery fall
With the tail of a comet.
It is better to wish upon
Than to concede
The enormity of their existence
The magnitude of the distance
Between us
Measured in light years
The meaning of space
The wobble of time,
How insignificant we are
How magnificent.
A known wonder of the universe
To add to all the others
We can see
From the open window
Of a nursery.
Holding a newborn
As an example
Of continuity
And the evolution
Of our relationship
To the celestial.