Alone

In the dusty cool of the night sky,

One lone star in the galactic swirl of the Milky Way.

A shadow on the horizon that eclipses

Starlight, thousands, even millions of miles away.

Distant lives revolve all around me,

But I am on a crash course with the sun,

Destined to burn up in some forgotten galaxy

That other celestial entities shy away from.

I never dreamed such desolation in the dark,

Or an aching that could chill so deep to the bone.

I never knew such solitude of the soul existed,

I never imagined I could feel so completely alone.


* de - march 2002