She reached out to catch them - the stars Gently pulling them to herself Like a mother gathering her lost children These delicate orbs, rising and fading She had gazed at their mesmerizing glow Wishing for too long and wondering if the tears she cast up in the sky had been forgotten For these constellations spinning in her eyes These silver night where she’d laid down her love Had seemed to be the end How she’d spent so long falling herself that she too was like a star Waiting for someone to reach out and catch her Only to see stars falling like the tear streaks In a final mourning of the forever lost dream And all she could whisper was goodbye