Twinkling Enigma

Twinkling Enigma

by Laura Summerville Reed

I'd sooner believe the stars don't burn

than believe I don't

but they'll take the fall and not complain

that's more than I can say for me

I burn – a twinkling enigma

Just bent light on a sandy horizon

Interference in the atmosphere

makes us all look so pretty in the moonlight

Wrap them tight in shiny cellophane

but they’ll escape

Be careful not to light so many lampposts

that you can’t see the stars

to guide yourself by

LSR 2010©