When stars are your only friends

A Poem by Robin

When you were young you learned things the hard way.
Your mother wasn’t there to pick you up and wash your
sore when you fell off your bike. She wasn’t there to teach
you the difference between wrong and right. And you
could’ve died multiple times already because you had
no one telling you which berries were poisoned and which
weren’t. It was you against the world but the stars would
keep you company at night and tell you bedtime stories
in the form of constellations you never really learned to
recognise. But it was okay because when you grew older
you learned to use your words more wisely and to lock
your dreams up in safety boxes because you didn’t want
reality to crush them. As you grew older you realised that
it was okay to be alone and it was okay to learn things the
hard way. It was you against the world but you survived
long enough to know you were stronger than everyone else.