Star Light, Star Bright

When you wish enough, sometimes it comes true.

The stars: creamy white in the dark canvas of the sky

Glittering with hopes and wishes and prayers and desire

Each one with your name attached to it.

I sat outside every. single. night.

My blanket drawn tight around my shoulders

My mug of tea grasped tightly in my small hands

And whispered your name fervently to the heavens

Hoping, wishing, praying, desiring

That one of those glittering creamy-white sparkles

Would pick it up, deliver you to me

So we could finally be the lovers

That we read about in storybooks.

Every

Single

Night

I wished for you, and you alone.

 

Tonight, you are sitting my my side

My blanket loosely drawn around our shoulders

Our mugs of tea sitting together on the porch next to us.

Your big hand covers my small one

And your shoulder makes the best place for my head to rest.

A shooting star crosses the dark canvas of the sky

And you whisper my name

As I whisper yours.

I smile as I look up to those creamy-white sparkles

And think, think so hard I swear they can hear me:

“Thank you.”

I wished for you, and you alone.

And you’ve finally come true. 

Reviews

[Cari Lynn Vaughn]

Love the imagery, it is as warm as the feeling behind the poem itself. Beautiful.