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Sweeping The Stars
by Elizabeth SeagoCollected in a dustpan,
Are the remnants of your
Lunar crash
Into my driveway.
Foolishly I let you stay.
You never cared much for cologne,
And you held me steady as my world came crashing down.
I didn't realize you'd have to make impact as well.
All these emotions clear in nuclear fusion.
Once we had to use a telescope,
Now we dodge their blow.
You said the moon had taught you a thing or two
About lighting the fire in a heart.
I pulled the plasma from your hair
And invited you in.
The gravity held you down, here.
You were born to crash into other planets.
Other worlds.
And so I let you go with the rest of them.
10/29/2008 Author's Note: Please come collect the stardust you
Hastily left between my sheets.
And don't forget what you've meant to me.
Posted on 10/29/2008
Copyright © 2010 Elizabeth Seago
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Jon Kary on 10/29/08 at 01:45 PM A positively gorgeous integration of ideal and concrete elements. Thank you, Elizabeth. |
| Posted by CM Bauer on 10/29/08 at 08:22 PM You should write about stars more often, beings that you know them so well, living in them and all. |
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