Look
Within
Heart in hand
Feeling true love
Forgetting the past
Grasping what is today
Preserving feelings we had
Planning tomorrow's actions
Actively creating new found love
Seeking to make the future much better

The being that though was
A whisper in the wind,
A flicker of light in the vast night sky,
A dream weaving
Through the fabric of existence.
The silence before the dawn,
The breath before a spoken word,
My other half
Saw another soul,
Another presence in the world,
A different light,
A different dream,
A whisper meant for someone else,
A flicker in another's sky
So I remain,
A murmur in the wind,
A solitary star in the vast night sky,

My childhood favorite toy
given by a family’s legacy gift
since at the early age of 10
with a black reading telescope
brought back fond memories
from many lessons that inspired
by the instilled of the astronomy
with the fascinating of the stars
across from the vast of the sky
intrigued by the passionate desire
In seeking a thirst for knowledge
filled with a curiosity of mind
for an in-depth understanding
how nature's instinct derived
from the inventive creative design

You kept them after she gave them to you, and
slowly they dried out in the crisp stale air of your room in a trailer
in the deserts of New Mexico,
poor conditions thus yielding poor results and...
flowers don't live forever,
it doesn't seem to matter what you do.

But you kept them, and hung them on your wall
to solidify a spirit of hope maybe,
or to be a memento for something that felt like
it would last forever
if you just gave it fresh water every day.