Stars defining darkness

darkness defining stars

the night is full of us

and though I raise

scanty rice from dark bowls

to my cracked lips

I believe in stars

that they will find a place

to be themselves only

an image free of darkness.

and though I raise my scanty

dying ink

to write pages and pages

I believe

each word is a

soul

a beginning and end to itself

each word belongs to itself,

not to the page,

as stars do not belong to the rain

that hides their sad, indefinable faces.

Stars defining darkness

darkness defining stars

the night is full of us

though I am placid,

my words contained in my own mind,

I believe and hope I will see my words

chase all the winds

in changing canopies

laughing, running,

burning, fleeing

tearing pages

in a part of me

where there will

one day be stars.