Star-Gazing Creatures Poem by Josh Terpening

We are stargazing creatures
With suns in our eyes.
In the blackness of nights
There always shines twilights,
Swirling within our invisible features.

Like yellow, billowy smoke from
A fiery weeping willow, her words
Rose as she spoke,
'The sky cries in vain from unbridled pain,
And the stars are but infinite scars—an
Eternal reminder for internal restrain! '

Suddenly the mirror became clearer
And the reflection of sure perfection
Both blessed and haunted me
Year after year.