Star

You were born later
Far, yet always present

From a dream long ago you came
Waiting to be seen

Sensed by many, but never really seen
Your words understood and heard by no one

You touched others, but no one touched you
You felt sensation, they were asleep

You needed to be found
Reborn in an intentional accident

You were light in need of light
But no one was a star

A star needs a star

The Missing Star

WHY did the star leave the sky,
The far, pure sky?
Shone she not high and hallowed and fair?
Could she not tarry her life-time there?
Why must she fall and fade?
She had heaven nigh.
I of the earth, I would she had stayed
In her lonely air.

Higher than love lived my star,
My clear, cold star.
Why must she droop to our mists below?
Ah, for the glory of long ago!
Ah, for the pride no more!
When she stood so far.
Would she were lost in the days before,
In the perished glow.

Star wandered out of my light,
Once all my light,
Seeing the sky through a dullness of tears,
Crying for thee to the empty years,
Where should I seek for thee
Mid the. desert night?
Not on the earth.
Ah! the star that nears
Has forgotten to be.