Your Freckles
Your freckles make up constellations
A star chart to our lives
You’re the goddess of my sky
The compass to my map
I want to connect every last one
And write a story
I want to take a red ink pen
And mark in every choice you’ve made
Every step, every breath
Every hour spent crying
Over her last one
I want to write your ballad
Across your body in the best
Cheap pen I can afford
And damn it’ll be like the Iliad
And the Odyssey
Because you’re a modern day hero
With the world on your shoulders
And a long way to home
Your image demands to be burned
Into the cosmos
Where every kid with wanderlust in their eyes
Can look up in wonder and wonder
What stories you have to tell
But just for now
Your freckles make up
My entire night sky