Early Fall 2006
Mostly just funny.
If the stars all fell down from the sky
Would they glisten and shine like the dew?
Would we cut up our feet on their diamond edges?
Would they shrivel and wrinkle and turn blue?
But the answer is worse than the asking,
So don’t tell me just shut your eyes
And pretend that the sky is unceasingly black
But the fields are all littered with bright fireflies.
And the stars could all fall down tomorrow.
We’d never remember their names.
If Sirius switched with Polaris,
They’d probably seem just the same.
If the stars all decided to land here,
Would they still disappear in the day?
And then flare at our feet and our fingers
When the light of the sun fades away?
And the answer is worse than the asking,
So don’t tell me just shut your eyes
And swear that the road is a river of silver
While darkness embraces the depths of the sky.
If the stars all fell down from the sky
Would we shovel them out of our walks
Till we made little suns out of piles on our lawns
And got stardust all over our socks?
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