I write tonight beneath the wheeling stars
Their frostfire whispers brushing silent scars
The kind that never broke the skin
But carved their longing deep within.

The sky is vast, unending, far too wide
For feet like mine that never learned to stride
Beyond the fence, beyond the hill
Beyond the echoing ache of still.

I’ve loved the night since I was young
Its velvet hush, its silver tongue
While others chased the warmth of day
I let the midnight strands guide my way.

Each star a spark, a breath, a tale
An invitation drawn in elder flame
And I, naive, with ink and dream
Would write to them with love unseen.

“Wait” I beg “please wait for me
Let me reach your beauty ever changing
Allow me to walk your jewelled clouds
Your endless tales, under sol born breeze.”

But time is cruel to dreamers late
To those who dance with idle fate
I’ve grown too old, or time too swift
My wings have grown weak, heavy, still.

I’ve never touched the Martian dust
Or kissed Europa's frozen crust
The moons I mapped inside my mind
Remain unsailed, untouched, yet kind.

And so every night I step outside
And drink in the starlit heavens with open pride.
They are not mine, and never shall they be
And still they light my life and make me free.

Amidst them is my love, a beautiful star
Who burned too brightly, and too far
She heard my dreams and kissed my head
And she said, “You’ll get there. You just… won’t land.”

She is gone now, lost to time’s own sea
Just another ghost that stays with me
Her light, a comet’s fleeting tail
Her image, the breeze beyond the pale.

Oh love, oh night, oh my loving endless sky
I promise to keep the dream, even if I cannot to you fly
And though my body may die on the ground
My soul still orbits, and flies unbound.

Let the void echo with my laugh
Let my love be carved on my epitaph
Let me live with the memory of what it can be
To write to stars that will never write to me

So here’s my letter, here’s my breath
Penned at last, as I lay so close to death
Let my whisper join countless in the cosmic tide
Of our souls that longed, that loved, that tried.

Keep it, stars, for when we go
Mere particles drifting in Sol's glow
And one day when upon us you gleam
Know you were always much more than a dream.