Poem--Morning Star

I admire you, Morning Star;
You are alone, just as I—
Yet you shine as bright as you can:
Many a dawn or dusk, you’ve shone
Greeting the fading or brightening sky
With your steady, hopeful glow…
Don’t you feel lonely, in the vast sky, alone?
Don’t you ever yearn for a friend?
Be it cloudy or clear, you are still alone—
Though a million glorious diamond stars
Cluster around in self-same constellations;
You can never be one among them,
Even when they surround you…
Don’t you ever wish for that feeling
Of belonging somewhere, having a place
For you, instead of wandering here and there?
You always shine out, bright as ever—
Behind that brave glow, is there a star-heart
As lonesome and sad as a human heart?
Maybe we can be friends: you and I—
So I can learn to shine, like you,
Through dusk to dawn, unflinching,
Bright with the starlight of hope…
Alone—a soldier at your heavenly post;
The first one to shine when the night sets in,
And unfailing until it is past.
Maybe you can belong to me,
And I belong to you…maybe?
Maybe I am just a lone star too,
And we were meant thus to be.