I look upon a distant star
Mired in the inky blackness of a midnight sky
They're so far away, yet I still feel their touch; their warmth

I can still hear their voice
It echoes from a realm beyond the stars
A place where their pain is accepted as punishment;
A crime never committed, yet a life sentence received

They live beyond that fading star
In a place foreign to the living; a place only they can know
Beyond my reach, but not my loving embrace

The echoes of their final moments still ring in my mind
Falling, falling... yet not to the ground
Up through the heavens and stars
To the blackened sky beyond

Their eyes still shimmer with jade luminescence
A color that still I cling too; even took my name from
Now in a way a sort of tribute

A tribute to a life cut short
A life too many of us come to know and despise
But I know in the midnight sky
Far beyond faded stars and constellations

I will always see those shimmering jade eyes