“you’re just like a star.
so much distance, so far.
all you’d ever do is crash and burn.
but for the center of your heart was all I’d ever yearn.
and it takes light years for me to see you explode.
because all you ever showed me was how pretty you glowed.
You were once my star.
The one I counted from afar.
Connected to my favorite constellations.
Watching over all the helpless nations.
I thought you were so bright.
As you sheltered me with light.
Creating beautiful designs.
While I’m drowning in turbines.
But all you ever were was just a simple little star.
You might as well have been a butterfly in jelly-jar.
For, I could never touch you.
Cos all you were was just a view.
Touch your hands or touch your face
You were always out in space.
Completely out of reach.
Your return was my beseech.
But as of then, you hide behind the clouds.
While I vanish in the crowds.
Secretly in love.
With the millionth star above.”

-J.P. Trochez (vers libre).