Star Dust

I watched the light fade from her eyes.

She left this world as but a whisper in the wind; being forgotten in an instant.

The cosmos opened up to her and welcomed her home,

but I begged for her to run away and come back again.

Selfish as it was, my damaged heart couldn’t bare to lose anymore pieces,

and my mind couldn’t carry the weight of anymore burnt-out stars.

I watched her body disappear.

She fell, and with it went her essence through this plane of existence.

And she was gone before she even hit the ground.

I remember wanting to go outside and stand on my toes,

hoping to reach up to the sky and grab her hand before it went.

And watching the moon follow me wherever I went, thinking it was

her making sure I had light to protect me.

Now I’m just about grown up, but after all this time it feels a

lot more like I’ve been eroding rather than growing.
I waited for her, hoping that she would ride back on the clouds

and land with the rain hitting my boots.

 

They tell me she never really left, but I’m not sure I was ever really here.

 

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My family
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