The stars fell when your legacy ended,

I found you hanging from the ceiling fan,
the spot where we adorned our ceiling with glow-in-the dark stars
your midnight blue eyes
the color of an empty void, the night sky without stars

blow out all the lights in the skies like candles
starlight, the sun’s rays, the iridescent moon, meaningless now
without you everything is empty, so empty
and the world is so dark

Who will I stay up late with to spy on the stars with?
this is no Greek legend, we are not Gemini,
did you think that I would be the Pollux to your Castor?
that the world would forgive and allow us to be together forever
immortalize us in the stars like we always joked that we would
that you would become of one of the constellations we fabricated

Oh brother.

Why?

I don’t think I will ever forget you. no matter what mother says.
I see you in the stars. I am smiling at you. Do you see me?