TWAN/Babak A. Tafreshi
Starchildren
by Caleb Akerley
we watch the stars
for hours
as they hang above
like fairy lights
twinkling far off
and we stare
enamored
by these ghastly beasts
we live our lives
under these stars, unchanging
we’ve lived one thousand lives under these stars
we’ve worked one thousand years under these stars
we’ve died one thousand deaths under these stars
have you ever stopped
to think
that maybe the stars look at us
with marvel
with curiosity
with wonder
thinking
“oh- there goes one more”
“gone in the blink of an eye”
or do you think
that maybe they dream too
and while we wish to be stardust
they wish for flesh and blood
they make constellations
out of us instead
that the starchildren
we wish to be
simply wish
to be children
like us
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