The Distance Between Stars

Let me walk to someplace quiet

Where there are no streetlights

No lamps to obstruct my shifting gaze

My meandering meditations

I do not know much of constellations

It is only the inky blackness

Between the flaming orbs of the night

That matters;

Because yesterday I thought

That darkness is much like

The distance between us -

One star is brighter than other,

Yesterday I thought

About how if both of us

Were standing still in crowd

Of unsmiling, unfamiliar faces,

Maybe we would notice each other.

Maybe the stars would come closer

And closer

And burn brighter

And brighter

Then maybe there would be a blinding flash

Of brilliant white light-

A collision, of sorts

If stars can collide, why can't we?

For darkness is impermanent,

Our lives are not filled by it.

It does not encase us, envelope or suffocate.

Let us walk to someplace quiet

So that I can look at you!!!