Seeing Stars
Even the brightest things
As they appear to us
Are all illusion.
Their light
Like drops of water from
A cracked dish
Spills and scatters into the
Universal mess of old dust and matter.
But we, craning our necks below,
Settle gratefully for less
Never knowing how bright,
Bright might have been.
Seeing stars was shortlisted in the Baskalier Open Poetry Competition and was included in Extinction: An Anthology of Poems, published by The Baskalier Press,
