I: STARS
In the dark of night,
Beside my bed a flash of light,
That turned out to be a star,
One of many more.
The stars shone in the trees,
Dancing in between the leaves.
Forming constellations,
And predicting our future.
Darkness sank into the depths,
As the elusive stars dot the lake.
A head, a shoulder,
A breath, a sigh.
From jazz to dance,
A midsummer night’s romance,
We traversed the city on borrowed time,
Always afraid of losing to chance.
II: GALAXIES
On the great canvas gifted to you,
You painted the galaxies,
In all shades but blue.
And then we danced on its arms,
Always careful, never fearful
In knowing there will be no harm.
The loss of silver,
The shimmer of gold,
In there you’ll keep the stories I’ve told.
As the sun shines as a star,
And the stars make up a galaxy,
That is how you had always made me.
III: UNIVERSE
A spaceman floating in the void,
Alone with no spirit,
He looks around and what he sees
Is a sea of darkness with no end
The spaceman thinks this is the end,
But remembers right before the attempt,
That the universe is not so empty,
But filled with all the stars and galaxies.
Then he sees it all at once,
The tiny sparks of light
Flickering all the way up, down,
And too, all around.
He sees the stars,
The ones he saw from home.
He sees the galaxies,
The ones he’d always dreamt.
Then he remembers,
That he’s not alone.
This universe may be big,
But love is bigger.
IV: INFINITY
I can live, without any regret,
And be eternally grateful to whom I’ve met.
For what you have given me;
A past, a present, a future.
An entire lifetime,
From birth to death
We had no time,
Yet we had all of time.
What you thought in months,
I thought as eternity.
Between one and the other,
Is just infinity.
— J.M. (2017)
Clarity 