An Ode to the Stars

Part III

My escape is short-lived

and just as quickly

as I had fled,

I am brought back.

This reality

is the madness I fear

and am unprepared

to face so soon.

The early morning ignites

just as the sky turns

and the sun reaches

over the horizon.

The light chases away the dusk

and the stars recede into hiding,

and I am left empty

like the starless sky.

But one star remains

and is left unforgotten,

but we are quick to forget

what it is.

The sun is a star,

just another one of the things

that make up what will be

soon called my home.