Stars Hide Your Fires

Wake with tears in my eyes
Are wishes carried through — reincarnations
When I was a different man?!
Past life contours disintegrating
Light on the skies cinch grey to blue
Hours to seconds
Separate by years
Dilated fibres, seconds become days
Splinters of color — away from the braid
Farther and farther away
Further and further apart
To shadow who aren’t the same
In a place that is or never was
Broken leaves
Drape a still pond
The cold air fills me
Without the
Fires
Stars
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