My Favorite Star
- Nick McReynolds
- May 1
- 1 min read
I shift my head up
Sharpen my eyesight
Search through the sprawling night sky
Speckled with stars
Until I get to one
My favorite one,
Vega
A beautiful summer star situated in a sequestered spot glimmering ever so slightly
With a salacious story to share
She cries for she longs for her one true love,
Altair
Who sits across the galaxy surrounded by a staggering number of stars
2 billion to be exact
100,000 light years separating them apart
100 billion planets he’d have to pass
But far below them both
Vega’s tears rain and sing down on the magpies of earth
And then on the seventh day of the seventh month every year
The magpies rise
Flying up
Their wings form a bridge
A galaxy spanning path
Allowing Vega and Altair to meet
For one night, and only that one night
Some see this as a sad tale, I see it as a sanguine story
A story of hope…
That our tears matter
