Little Starfish Poem by JAMES T. ADAIR

Sadness is a dream dying
Someone or somthing you love
Just out of your reach
And you're lost and alone
Heartbroken
Stranded like a forgotten starfish, cast away
Drying in the sun and rain, upon a weary beach
And when the the rain came you began to cry
Wanting to perish and to lay there and die
And the gulls, even they overlooked you
And the hermit crabs too passed you by
As the tide threatened to wash you away
you gave up inside and stopped asking why
Then in the night you somehow fell asleep
And somewhere in that trancending far away dream
you wished you were something else
Maybe a flower or a moonbeam
But you heard soft footsteps far away in the sand
Masked by the surf, you hardly noticed
and didn't quite understand
Until someone with a bright heart spotted you
Delicately picked you up with their hand
Out of the blue, someone saw something good in you
Didn't wish to throw you away, like others did or would heartlessly do
So into their heart shaped bucket you gently settled
like a stowaway thankful for providence and fate
Somehow not a moment to late!
You looked up at the blue morning sky
A tear of healing fell from your upward facing eye
and you felt a shiver in your sun-like rays
that felt again like one of the old days
when you lived life washing upon the beach
Most carefree!
Washing in and out
like a little star in the sky for dreamers to see
Mabye someone like me