Stellae

 

All shadows are lost to this moonless night.
Only distant stars' tiny points of light can
Penetrate this dark shield.

Beneath their struggling glow I gaze up
In wonder at whose stellar points of light,
Perhaps glow, owing to some assumed
Illumination of spirit.

Distant fires burn within to
Shine a faint flicker upon my eye.
They - in their fulminating fulfillment, and I -
Enshrouded in the darkness of their failing.