Bright Star

You talked to the stars as if they knew you whispered their sweet names & they came to you like cows grazing in your mind you gave them their known names & they adored you taming the night skies their constellations your consolation. You tell me that: “The stars are really all the dead that ever were ...looking down on us! ” No longer earth bound beyond the reach of such human grief as yours you convinced you will be a star lost in these heavens. * * * This cold night the stars trapped in the sky Forever only a poster peeling from a crumbling wall to reveal past Forevers past recall. Memory only a circus an audience’s gasp as an acrobat slips up & falls in the big top of your dreams once again the music fails the memory of your laughter like the tinkling of bells trembling inside me beside my self beside you all this forever gone I search for you in the heavens find only stars trapped in a sky.