I live in a
Galaxy of stars suns
As they are known
All giving off light
But all also dying
None can be touched
All only are admired
Most people are suns
When young burn brightly
But as they age
And their own pompous
Mass begins to collapse
They don’t go away
Quietly like candles
But rather implode taking
Everyone and everything close
I wake up hopeful
It doesn’t take long
Before I’m right back
Into dismay and heartbreak
No not about love
That I do have
I am simply heartbroken
By humanity’s very behavior
How how can we
Possibly expect to survive
I’m not sure we
Can or better if
We should I’m losing
Hope in my brethren
It rained that night
That kind of whispering
Rain like cat paws
Clawing carpet I remember
Watching it slide down
The window in little
Winding riverlettes disappearing into
A pool at the
Bottom like children on
The first summer day
Rain is never ever
Going to just be
Rain again it’s always
Going to be goodbye
I remember the weight
Of that one rocks
Glass in my hand
The night you left
It’s all that remained
Of a life together
That I could hold
The rest of it
I let go and
Pushed away but that
One small rocks glass
Still had your lips
In lipstick on it
It rained when I
Was in Paris it
Rained a cold rain
The kind of rain
That when felt chilled
I went to Paris
Running from things wishing
To leave them behind
But with every droplet
I remembered and soon
In Paris I wept
Paris to me was
The mothers arms needed
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 