How Could The Stars… Poem by Dónall Dempsey

How could the stars
have forgotten you?

You who held them in
the surprise of your eyes

floated them through
your wind blown hair

& untangled them
from the tortured branches
of trees

when they had lost their way
or forgotten who they were.

You who had spoken of them
when they were silent

& couldn’t find words

spoke to them so tenderly
shaping them into poems.

Now the sky is bereft.

Only the darkness speaks

as the stars search
...seek for you.