~Stars~

Star

by Sarah Mahina Calvello

"You-you alone will have the stars as no one else has them. In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night....You-only you-will have stars that can laugh-Antoine De-Saint-Exupery

reaching what you reach for

is hard

but trying is not that hard

 somehow we'll get there

even if we take the long way around

at night

you took me outside

opened the door with a grin

a rare light in your eyes

you pointed a leathery finger up

until I saw it 

my first shooting star

it slowly climbed the arc of the night sky

shaking and white

leaving echo's of memories behind

cold slow swirls 

in the still dark

thats my childhood

thats what it comes down to

a shooting star

brief in the night sky

I'll keep looking up

so I can see your star

    I saw a shooting star tonight
    and I thought of you