Just Resting on a Star

We grieve 
We weep
We eat 
We sleep
Then in 
Respite
From space
So desolate
A still
Sweet sound
From above
Floats down
Shushing
The sobs
Which solace
Robs
"I've not gone
That far
Just resting
On a star"

~Ellen Apple 07/17/2015