Wasting Wishes On Stars... Poem by John Tansey

When I think of us
Our once deep relationship;
It is as looking at a star’

Its bright light I see
Are but memories,
Billions of years into the past.

In truth,
I know not, if neither the stars
Nor we
Ever existed at all.

But still I gaze
Wondering if your wish upon a star
Was for another chance at our nebulous union,

Or just some quasi-quasar
Calamity of nature
To separate, and thus contribute
To the entropy of the dying heavens…