Just a Poem by a Friend

Hey everyone!

Sorry about my absentee-ness last month on the blog... Things were kind of crazy.

Anyway, I thought I'd share a poem written by my friend Nina Mulroy.

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Darling

A star wishes & wants & waits

floating in a dark,

dead,

   dead

       galaxy.

As a child

she, not unlike others,

banded all across the night sky,

more awash & resplendent than any.

A

   true

                      luminary.

But she aged,

& her shine exhausted itself.

Ceruleans & ultramarines

tarnished into

    cardinals

&

   rubies.

The moon now pays her once darling star

no mind,

for other diamonds

gleam so much brighter

than she

ostensibly

                ever

                             did.

Collapsing into herself,

she can overreach no more.

For her final farewell,

she splits open

& scatters her marrow

across

        the

margin.

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So there you have it! I adore this poem and thought that you all might enjoy it as well.

Hope your week goes well, and enjoy the sunshine while it lasts!

- Maria