Lonely Stars, Seeking Souls

A billion stars and more, intergalactic debris, clouds, lonely atoms

missing their electrons, gamma rays and x-rays, all seeking

life, our tiny lives with blue socks and missing shoes we look

for under the couch before getting the daily newspaper hidden in

the bushes.

We look heavenward through a haze of city smog on summer nights

holding the hand of someone we love, seeking life outside

the cramped box we call home with greasy ceilings and unswept floors,

mangy dogs licking themselves, briefcases unopened.

A billion stars, a billion people and more gaze at each other

across lightyears wondering where they have been and where they

are going. 

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