dedicated to Alice

I have not known you,
You so cute, you so tiny,
Yours parents have loved you, cherished you,
You so cute, you so tiny,
You have opened your eyes on the world,
You have breathed one hundred thousand seconds,
We have hoped, prayed for you, for
You to simply live,
To experience la joie de vivre,
With your brother, with the others,
You left so quickly, so tiny,
Your tiny body in ashes.
Farewell Alice. See you soon up there.

some nights you will feel
like there are a thousand galaxies
exploding in every inch of you
and you are burning too bright
to ever be looked at directly,
and some nights you will feel
impossibly small, like your
whole body could slip through
the spaced between atoms and
never reappear in this world again,
and some nights you will feel
like a paper doll, carefully crafted
and easily blown away, fragile,
too delicate to ever be touched,
and some nights you will feel
like each cell in your body is
made of the strength that holds
the whole planet together,
and that is okay because you are
made of stardust and miniscule
atoms and breakable bones
and the building blocks of
everything in the universe,
and you are too alive to never
feel anything more than human