So Small

She tugged on my shirt,

A child of my kin,

And asked me on a black night

"Are stars people in heaven?"

The stars beamed.

"No," I started and stared.

"We are stars who died long ago.

We are the stars who died

And went to Heaven."

Author's Note

So I changed some things up to attempt to make it move more smoothly. It seemed to attract a good bit of attention, so I made things a bit deeper and (I feel) more poetic and questionable. I understand some people get offended by the reality of science, so I apologize if this offends you, however, if you want an argument, you won't find it here.

Thanks for reading!

Reviews

[Epipsychologist]

This I poem is founded on a poetic interpretation of science, which makes it inherently interesting in my opinion. I think we forget (perhaps that's not the right word) that we were once part of a star. Also, I've been told that some Greek philosopher (it was probably Plato) thought that the night sky was a giant black sphere containing the world and sun and moon, and that stars were good souls who broke through it when they ascended. This poem reminded me of that.

[K-mo]

I really like the way you make the reader ponder, lovely write

[LJW]

Why do we have this insatiable need to attach relevance to the existence of stars? We wish on them, name formations of them, wonder about and over them...seems we all did this, starting in our childhoods.

We may have used the same picture... my INTO THE VOID is partly about stars as well.

Nice, simple work.....

[Rita L. Sev]

Brief, eloquent and thoughtful. I enjoyed this star-gaze.

[Matt]

Nice, I really like this one short, sweet and has stargazing. I find it quite an uplifting moment at the end with that really gives perspective on how amazing the world is. :)

[poetdoug]

Very creative and straight to the point. I like.

[Manali]

There is heavy irony in the last line. How an innocent question can led to such ruthless realities. Nice one..

[SyberRose]

Lovely thoughts here...children ask such innocent beautiful questions...Rose:)

[Joshua Hunter]

I head to read the poem twice to make sure I understood it. Then I sat back and thought about it, very good I love this. It's so simple but so good! Great job!

[David the writer]

Ha! Lovely short poem. Poeticly scientific about education ^_^

[Christoph Poe]

It is. :) Thanks for commenting!

--Christoph