Hello midnight my old friend
I have not been with you for a while.
The stardust from your speckled canopy
feels so good again on my skin.
I want to wear you on my shoulders
like a shawl of comfort.
I know I have ignored your quiet beauty.
I know I sought comfort from another love.
one of my own kind
and forgot about you my  friend.
please forgive me.
I sit on the bench alone
Comforted by your light.
Seeking your infinity.
Yet even that has changed.
Another shooting star
dies in the heavens
leaving a space in you midnight.
Just like he left a space in me.
Are you looking in wonderment
at me midnight?
Like the way I am looking at you.
Hoping for things to be the same.
Yet knowing changes are inevitable.
I watch the spaces in you
when another star dies.
You see the space in me
When another love dies.
But here I am again
Under your mantle
Of countless fading stars
Your light on my shoulders
Your tears in the rain.
Sitting together in friendship
Waiting for another of our
beloved stars to fade.