Chasing Starlight

She was much practiced at staring off

Into the nighttime sky.

She had memorized the planets and their moons,

Watched space launches, and their many returns.

She referred to herself as a ‘lunartic’ —

Since she rarely ever missed watching an eclipse.

But, tonight, as a rare ‘strawberry moon’ lit up the sky

And she chased the starlight,

Her mind was only on him.

Just once, she hoped he smiled

When he too looked up at the distant nighttime sky

And thought of her, as his fixed point of light!

Linda Amos

Proprietary Gesture

He had offered to give her everything;

To do everything for her,

To take every burden from her,

To solve every dilemma. So, she had nothing to do

But lean against him,

And to shed all her cares and woes

Of the past thirty years That she had had to bear Alone without him.

Linda Amos