Literature
stargazing
you and I sang the sun a lullaby;
painted the sunset with our harmonies;
coaxed out the stars with lilting tunes.
we murmured to them
joyful little verses
dotted by sparkling laughter.
we lay side-by-side,
looking up with a newborn wonder,
lifting the eyelids
which we had once shut tight over
the eyes of our childhoods.
among those stars,
we dared to draw constellations of our own--
we picked out letters and objects,
animals and instruments,
silently twinkling there amongst our
dreams
and hopes
and yearnings.
you began humming a bittersweet melody,
expressing to me that wish you wished for most of all--
that brightest star which at on