What Stars Would Say

It's finals week, which means studying, procrastination, and tests. I don't have the time to make a real post, but wanted to get something up here anyway. I'm trying to commit myself to one post at least every 10 days, since my poor blog has been neglected as of late. Anyway, here is a poem I wrote last semester in my Creative Writing class. It was my first ever sonnet.

What Stars Would Say
By Michael Moreno

Lying down on Earth, grass beneath my back,
O how those stars blanket the sky at night.
Eons away, dots against endless black;
How they wash our world with pale, ashen light.
My desire: to lay among them, floating,
Forever wandering that black abyss;
Swimming through the cold stream of time, bathing
In that quiet ocean of nothingness.

Then I stop and wonder what they must say
As they twinkle their light for us on high,
“I wish that I could live to see the day
When we can breathe air, eat food, live our lives.”

“My one desire is to live in their midst,
Forever in that blue and green abyss.”