Burnt Star Eyes

Alone under the heartsick moon tonight,
I count stars to forget the question of you…
and find only five in the wilderness of sky…

Last night you watched with burnt star eyes
as my love and I embraced in the fallen leaves.
I heard you tremble in the darkened yard;
my mind went delirious with desire for you
as you fled to the shrubbery and pines.

As I laid awake in bed that night,
you came to me and soothed my throbbing body,
our tears mingling in the silk white sheets.
Speaking of things that never could happen—
love and burnt star eyes inside me.

…Gazing at these five stars in the sky
when two silently implode and vanish from sight,
just a pair of burnt stars lost in the night.

~*~S~*~