Starry Night

It's always been a bit too familiar

The glow in your eyes

The sparkle in your smile

The way you illuminate my darkness

 

During the nights that seem the most opaque

& during the bleakest of twilights

There has always been a certain star that ignites the duskiness of my sky with a rippling fire

It intensifies the murkiness with beams of light that are much too extraordinary

 

Your radiating shine

& your dreamlike shimmer

They're all too recognizable for you were made up of the sheddings of the same star I gaze up at

You were created with the remnants of stardust

You were shaped & etched by its luminosity

But what makes your kinship to this star the most distinguishable, is the way you burn a love in my heart in the same manner that star burns a pathway of light into my late night's sky