Starlight

Endeavor to paint a picture

Of all the changing skies

I'll do my best to draw in starlight 

So I can see it reflected in your eyes

As it all gets blinked away

I'll sigh and try again

Always trying to remember

What it was like back then

Absorbing all the ink

That leaks from my hand

It's all an endless cycle

Contracting just to expand

Each word is such a struggle

Slipping from my mind

The more I try to build them

The faster they unwind

There's a rhythm and rush now

Pulling at my skin

What am I doing here?

Wasting time again

How long can this go on?

Forever, and just today

It all fades in and out

Searching for something to say

Absorbing words to leak them

Living days to forget

Time marches on

And I haven't figured out the reason for it

Though I relearn it every day

It never sticks around

Though I find it often

There's nothing really to be found

Endeavoring to find a moment

Of surety beneath these skies

I'll breathe in starlight

And watch it reflect in your eyes