Starry Night

Despair is all I've known

As I lay in this room weak and alone

With no happiness nor a home

Only one thing in this world can remember me as I lie

The stars shining upon the navy blue sky

"Come with me," a soft voice whispered from the night

I could not answer in my fright

As it was not from the night

But from my mind

"Why do you fear the stars?"

"I do not fear the stars but the emotions they show I feel so raw"

The need of acceptance in the eleven stars is all I see

As the mourning cypress tree scratches the window beside me

My mind only swirls with the wind in the sky

As I focus on the crescent moon, stars and village in their dim but hopeful light

In this quiet peace is something I might find

As I find my thoughts go astray

'I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day'