Starry Night - Gregory White

[Lawrence Robinson]

Starry Night



The way dry pine sparks itself escaping
Sierra campfires, my hands warming,
feet cooling, eyes tracking the
rising embers, like stars, moving away.

Since before I remember I  
wanted to be closer and closer,

like humans can be. But years pass,
time accelerates, fate speeds toward my
future whether I want it or not.

Odd that the universe is the
opposite.

Its blazing galaxies burn and age,
each star abandons all others, every
night sky now a dark void of neighbors,
the All becomes black holes.  But, somehow,
my atoms endure.
 
	- Gregory White
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