Fallen Star

I tracked along a silver trail carved out from Earthly dust by rays persistent in the dark and midnight wanderlust. It led me to a bubbling fount of sulfurous mud and tar; whereupon I chanced a glimpse and found a fallen star. An ancient from celestial realms ensnared terrestrially dimly glowing in the murk I heard it sing to me: Sojourner of the moonlit way I sense thy beating heart I’ve travelled from infinity now hearken ere you part. You roam upon this infant orb, you draw from it thy life, but I sense greed and evil scorn and no land void of strife. I beg you tell me how it came that creatures such as thee have found such hatred in thy souls to punish endlessly. It’s not so bad, I said out loud we know of love as well… as to the fate of mother Earth I simply can’t foretell. The ground beneath my weary feet gave way to empty space then all around me in the void I saw the human race. Starving children, ill and gaunt were kicked by wing-tipped shoes. Females ranging every clime in silence nursed abuse. In darkness men were plotting war in light their banners raised it mattered not which way I looked some evil met my gaze. Make it stop, I beg you please! Why poison thou my mind? What can I do to stop all this, is no good left to find? Sojourner of the moonlit way I sense thy beating heart I’ve travelled from infinity now hearken ere you part. You roam upon this infant orb, you draw from it thy life, and though you’re one of many men love in thy chest is rife. You must return to whence you came you must confer abroad the goodness that within thee burns seek first to serve the flawed. Think on the vast expanse of space so empty, dark and cold… and how despite the hopeless cause star-light you still behold. So too might thou, if you’ll but try endure this awful plight for in the vast expanse of hate love is thy shining light. 07/16/15