Pull the lever,
Shift your sights,
Fate’s a force to rally,

Respect the ribbon’s binding,
Guardian rails fail short for trying,
But grief’s a burden to carry,

Can’t you feel the tides turning?

Valiant are the stars
Incandescence at arms
Knights of the cosmos
What distant suns!

Falling stars like speckled gold,
Juniper fields, memories of old,
The bees have gone, or so I've been told
Would you have known?
Where you were, the path grows cold
Not one you've wrote, those empty notes,
Hardly a modern myth,
To me, this dream you sold

Unprecedented to me,
Your presence,
Hold constellations of the cosmos,
Planets of distant suns,
Secrets of the stars

Letters of yours,
Hidden in sight,
My trove of treasures,
A reader's delight,

Neatly packed,
With a ribbon or two,
They've arrived,
Long overdue,

Line by line,
I've traced your hue,
Scribbles of yours,
Enveloped in blue

I carry with me,
Creatures and critters,
The moss on branches,
Heaps of soil,
Sunkissed leaves,
They're mine to keep