A voice once said, Look at the stars
And tell me truthfully, what you see.

I said darkness
and things
We cannot fathom.
Some people say
all the bad things in life
Drift there and are forever held.
Like the stars are pieces of our past.
Isn't that why people look at the stars
thinking of all that has ever wronged them?

No, said the voice
Stars are not the pieces.
But are the reminder that
We choose to linger
We are of the absolute past.
Not seeing through the wrong
that is blocking what is and what is not.