Love Poem: Even the Stars
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Written by: Tracy Decker

Even the Stars

when each tick
of a clock is the slow
increase of distance and
there is no warmth 
anywhere because
even the stars (like me)
are too far away

when the sunset is less beautiful 
than tragic 
at the ending of another
another,
another...
and brings night dark
as regret because
even the stars (like me)
can't shine without you

when the dawn of
tomorrow is the
desperate terror that
it's closer now,
the inevitable time when
you won't care because
even the stars (like me)
burn, but eventually fade


my only answer can be "yes"
(rather, 'I should have')