To Be Known, Or Not Poem by Jackie Chou

To Be Known, Or Not



A star, no matter how quiet
has a name

I think I'm like that
spilling my beams onto the world-
a photo here, a poem there

My friend from high school
posted a close-up of a pearl necklace
as her on-line profile

Not even a pet
but a pearl necklace

I can never settle
for that kind of anonymity
that kind of dimming

of my shine

Sunday, April 26, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: life
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