Only Distances

Only Distances

In the heavens, we see only distance

Not the fates of lovers or of nations

Not allowing ourselves to be taken

Close to any saving grace this season.

Only watching each bright star to notice

Where it falls into a final darkness

Far beyond the edge of everything else

We could never touch and hardly can see.

Stars do not perform their dances for us

Or to give us signs and portents telling

What to seek or how we should behave now.

They are there and we are here and only

Distance connects us with light each threading

Out from there to here and everywhere else.

Over there is as significant as

Over here. No place can overshadow

Any other place the light still touches.