Shadows & Dust [poetry]

Star Kissed

Have you ever kissed a star?

Craned your neck up to the

heavens, pressed your lips to

the flaming core, so white-hot you

saw sparks behind your closed

eyes, nebulae enfolding ethereal

petals of vaporous dust and ionized

gasses about you, until finally you, too,

combusted brilliant from the inside

out, your mind expanding to

encompass the universe, the

Milky Way galaxy drifting through

you, whirling about your departing

ego, almost in a dance, shed like

so much orbital debris, beginning

its own hero's journey, perhaps

to evolve into another you,

somewhere else, but you pay

it no mind, content instead to

witness the music of the spheres.