Stars

By Medha

We fall in love with stars living under a dark sky

We’re always reaching for things we can’t touch

And people we can’t love

Always finding light in caves too dark for us to wander

Forbidden has never seemed too strong of a chain to break

We fall in love with each other in a loveless place

Our parents’ hands are like two magnets

Pulling away from each other

So we hold each other tighter

Our hearts so close, there’s no place for fear between us

We douse our houses in sunlight so bright

Love won’t ever wither cold here

We fall in love with life while trying to end it

Finding art in our own destruction

We’ve made pillars of fatalities

That we hold up around us

We bleed and look at it as masterpieces

Finding beauty in pain

Hoping we’ll find something beautiful enough to stay in this world

By Medha