Peer into the blackboard sky
And reap her tributes of fleeting wonder
High above
She straddles all things
Hovering atop our most fragile mortality

Unwaveringly
She glints streaks of gold
Carving rouge paths of flaming ember
Where frozen nights
Despair beneath
Driven away from the skin of pondering lovers

Distant pearls
Are my abode
Grazed only in tender dreams

Gems afar
Are where I must defer
Kept in mute splendor
Deprived from all

To be selfishly marooned
Is my earnest wish
Gratefully withheld by eternal seclusion
If only