To Braze a Star

You raise me from my deathlike slumber-

only to die out in silence like a shooting star.

With sweet words you buffer-

my heart into a steaming samovar!

Your frown sinks like a smiting bolder-

ruining my entire day like splattered tar.

You say your requests will bring us closer-

when all I see is a forager seeking a deodar!

And though this shrew is smitten with a botcher-

She is mindful of her captor!

Eschar with ordeals and betrayal, yet never-

a foolish law breaker to be seen in a peignoir!

I am who I am a star cursed with daylight slumber-

so let’s not fall for our natures and spar!

Our mundane paths diverge around a geyser-

that’s blazed our lives in values and repertoire!

Spare me the tides of tender for cinder-

for a heart left ajar needs no crowbar!

You are my lifeline’s dagger

just as I am your lifetime’s scar!

Condor of the sun, your actions I shall counter-

With a soul so quasar!

You are my daylight downer-

just as I am your prey my par!

You and I differ my dawn seeker.

You rise when I die my lifetime quare!

So I tell you seek the night not the bazaar-

for only the night can reveal who I am- a shining star!