So Simple a Star

so simple a star, for oh so long it glitters, in my eyes — still alive. living things have walked this path in love, excited, lonely and ragged. do stars fall like rain or snow? do they stop the cuckoo clock? the sky — like the sea manifest, a prayer to touch. pondering the last star — is it the same as the first? is it close to my heart or far? is it perhaps Rilke’s white city?* perhaps...perhaps 12/17/2018 *Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke