Poems & Selections

There Will Be Stars

There will be stars over
the place forever;
Though the house we loved
and the street we loved are lost,
Every time the earth circles her orbit
On the night the autumn equinox
is crossed,
Two stars we knew,
poised on the peak of midnight
Will reach their zenith;
stillness will be deep;
There will be stars over
the place forever,
There will be stars forever,
while we sleep.”

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