Looking Up
Friends are for life,
Burning bright like stars,
Sun like steady,
guiding through
storms of doubt
and decision.
Darkness deep,
Shimmering distances,
faint pinpricks
that appear
deep enough
to need them.
The childhood friend:
of memory never fades,
winter after winter
rising in the
same place and burning bright like pole star.
New friends
cluster like the stars,
seven sisters dancing,
each light distinct,
yet bound by
invisible threads
of shared laughter.
Some have
wandered
beyond my horizon,
their glow
A question mark
against
unfamiliar skies.
But on clear nights,
when loneliness
spreads its black cloth,
I trace the lines between us
this one who held my hand through grief,
that one who celebrated my small victories,
another who simply
sat in comfortable silence.
Distance is nothing to starlight.
Love travels at the speed of memory,
arrives intact
after years of traveling
through the dark.
Tonight,
I map the constellation of us:
each friend a fixed point
in the turning world,
their collective brightness
spelling out my name
across the endless
sky of belonging.
Copyright © Dr. Padmashree R P | Year Posted 2025
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