Hush the Stars
-For Justin Bordner’s contest
I long worshiped heartbreak,
From afar, often, though through the lenses, ceaselessly…
I drew ribbons in the midnight sky with the silken trinkets of sorrow
Riding in the dark with the sound of our silent sufferers all around…
At times, I would weep at the hum of their distress
High above, I would cry out loud, like all the rest…
That classic, misery magnet caught in my own spider web
My appendages long worn in life’s tethered mess…
When unexpectedly, the handsome stars hushed,
And this twister that I have become encountered a multihued masterpiece…
I caught your crushing colors in my winds of garish web
You blended with me cheerfully, enjoying the crucifying climb…
Because that is what you do
You live to inspire me
You live to hush the stars
Often, I sneered at the notion of love
I would trap the distant idea in my furious swirl…
The fires that caught my base would climb so very high,
And I would spit them free into the merciful skies…
And then I would hear the voices again, louder and louder
They had cried so long that they began to cackle in denial…in madness…
In wretched whir, in false allure, I would shamefully laugh along
Born in the trap where I thought I belong
Though, you taught me in venerating verse I was wrong
Your colors reflected places in my heart I never knew before...
My snares became havens for the lost and scorned
Entwining masterfully, you showed me how true love was born...
Because that is who you are
You saved me in my hateful hour
You live to hush the stars
How could I have been so lost?
Why did I ever lose myself in their sobbing?
I love you, my source of light,
My source of rain after long-parched night...
Has my heart reached the top of my own destruction?
Do you see it in your revealing rays?
Delighted be, your eyes lifted and met mine as you say,
“You were meant to hush the stars
You were meant to touch my heart
You are everything to me...
And now, we are blended, reaching for eternity
Just as we ought to be…”
I, the tornado of tremor,
You the rainbow of radiance,
Together blended with the trusting touch of earth, air, wind and fire
Through the zooming lenses, in the great mirrors all around
I proudly see myself now with your life within me
And how beautiful and extraordinary we are together
As we aptly ought to be
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2015
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