Stargazer

This day, I let you go, and the sky is brighter, sea-like, clouds of waves, and the breeze is silky, teasing...... still I let you go. The birds sing out at me, I see their brown heads through my flowered curtains, their song is "why, dear, oh why?" and yet I let you go, released, like stars in a deep blanket of pitch black midnight. I sent you to them, they'll hold you firmer, tighter than I ever learned how, fist-like tight in a twinkle of quickening light, and just like that, I'm a star gazer.