One Star

The stars

shine

to remind

someone

to keep

going.

When the day

is done

and heaves

its final

breath into

the shadows,

someone

runs outside

and stretches

their gaze

as far as they

possibly can

and tries to

seize each

glorious fleck

of distant fire.

Someone

drops to their

knees

and prays

out loud

and desperately

wishes

those majestic

balls of light

would hear

their earthly

pleading.

And with tears

streaming

to the ground,

someone

raises their arms

and spreads

determined hands

all the way up

to heaven.

Every night,

someone

is plucking

one star

from that cold,

dark sea

and carrying

its warm flicker

of hope

into the

very next

morning.

~ 'One Star' by Susan Frybort
~ Art by Juksung Lee
~Source: Facebook - Spirit of a Hippie