Song Lost to Your Stars

by Anthony Perlas

I wish for you to listen to your heart,

as if you’ve slipped beyond the ocean’s call.

You hear my voice through waves of empty air,

yet my soft sigh can’t touch your tender soul.

It seems your eyes have soared to distant stars,

and sorrow’s breath has sealed your lips from mine.

My love for you, so true, fills every breeze,

and you shine forth, a light that tears my heart.

You are my soul, a dream of mourning doves,

a lovebird’s coo that echoes, lost at sea,

a broken song that names you bright: Destiny.

I wish for you to listen to your heart,

your choir a wail, like doves in ocean’s dusk.

You seek your bunnies, hearts you gently tend,

their tears warmed by your green, grandmother’s grace.

Let me lie still within your far-off hush,

and plead through silence, faint as starlit glow,

simple as a ring, yet drowned in all my grief.

You are the night, with breezes and their stars,

your silence like a galaxy, too far, too clear.

I wish for you to listen to your heart,

as if you’ve strayed to soothe your bunnies’ pain.

Your song lifts souls that aren’t mine, though I loved you true,

while my prayers, my magic, sink to ocean’s depths.

One note, one spark, could heal this shattered heart,

and I’d rise whole, my love, trusting the Lord’s design—

a miracle to call you back to me.