Starlight

We lie together under a field of black dotted with the light of countless stars

Separated by a distance measured in lifetimes and innumerable branching paths

Never able to be crossed, never able to feel each other’s embrace

Alone under the same sky

While a tear rolls from my eye to crash upon my cheek like waves upon a rocky shore

I wonder if you share the same sadness and the unbearable solitude in the depths of your heart

I wish with all I am that you do not, for I love you

I wonder across the great expanse of space and time wondering if you do as well

But I cannot hold hope for that truth

For I am alone in the dark, surrounded by my life

Dreaming under the sky of your eyes