A View of the Sky
by Michael Fink
The stars are all dead, she said
The light you see is too late for them
We’ve nothing to save us left
And I begged her gaze upon the black
Which blankets a space more vast, and said
There are countless stars among those depths
Whose light hasn’t reached us yet
There is no time for love, she cried
There are too few moments in life
And we’ve none free to set aside
And I asked her to lie in my bed
Where our burdens might be shed, and said
We might be short-lived, and yet
Tonight, we are only short of breath
One must not fear death or life
One must not recoil from the light
For all that we have endured in our time
We have ensured that we will ever shine
And when someone else gazes upon that same night sky
Let us love so bright, that if they fear the stars have died
They will know, those two still glow, whose love approaches the divine
Should you fear we have no time, I assure you we have all our lives
And the eternity by which they will remember our light
As lovers who knew only one truth in life
That the strength of the soul will conquer the coldest of nights
That we are home when we find ourselves in a lover’s eyes.
The stars are all dead, she said
And smiled knowing, we need not their light.
I was a bit worried there, until the end. Perhaps we should not read too much into the stars. =)
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Perhaps we should remember the whole of existence before proclaiming that we are lost. I have suffered many a broken heart, but I have also been blessed with so many beautiful moments. On our paths, we can not focus our energy on preventing heart ache, instead survive it and allow the experience to strengthen the next world we build. Thank you much for reading, I very much enjoy hearing other’s opinions and thoughts.
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Thank you very much for reblogging this, as well as for the endorsement, I greatly appreciate it.
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It was my pleasure. From what I’ve seen it won’t be the last time.
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love eternal – well versed
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