NATURE Poem: Touch the Stars, by Elisabeth Lean

Across the night sky stars are scattered carelessly;
the tears of heaven
fallen through the golden bars,
lost to our sky forevermore.

Burning bright in the sky,
they are visited only by the sun and moon,
isolated in their collective exile.

They glint and glimmer, winking at me from above.
I see them untethered and unbound,
brilliance sewn across a sea with no end.

One by one I watch them fall,
streaking across the canvas for one blazing second.
They disappear from sight
off the edge of the painting
vanishing into unborn dreams.

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