M. Rephun (c) December 24, 2007

When I was a child
I imagined I was growing
Taller, and that my head would reach the stars
But when I got older
I realized my body had shrunk
And my Heart had become a tiny speck
Of Light, stretched across oblivion.

When I die, let my soul become a star
A tiny dot, that at first sight,
Seems like nothing:
But whose glowing light expands, and whose brilliance grows
The closer one draws to it.

Children and lovers will watch me from the hills
My face one among the swarming millions
But they will see me, and will laugh with delight
Knowing that it was I, a million year old being,
Who first touched them with my rays
When they felt the World's coldness on their skin:
And they will be reminded of a Face,
They once knew, bright as a Star
And which they thought had gone from them forever.