The Big Black Sky (Anything you've lost)

(Pre-Script: This poem pairs well with the song, "Little Wonders," #52 on the playlist, so go down to the playlist, click on that song, then come back and resume reading. I'll wait...) (...still waiting...)

Usually it looks like
an infinity of blackness, with a few staid points of light
dotting the horizon.
But if,

when you least expect it,

you see a shooting star

or meteor shower,
even if it begins in your peripheral vision,
lock your eyes on it and do not let them wander
(brilliant things tend to fall fast
no matter how much you wish upon them)
and when it is appears to have burnt out,
remember that it never really burns out, it just
left your immediate vicinity for a time,
made you spin your head in confused wonder,
made you think, "was that real?"

(Tomorrow you will wake up and wonder if

you just imagined it)
but it was never

gone-

remember that

when it left the horizon you knew how to see,

it launched itself directly

into your heart.*

(*in time you will learn

to see it there.)

-XOXO,