You are my star of long ago,
You are my light from outer space.
You are my sun and rain and snow
By which my heart is shaped in place.

My love of you has failed somehow,
A truth I’d thought was to suffice.
A truth now sunk in blackened slough
Wherein I sense my sacrifice.

A light gone dim for which I long
Will ever shine in air so thin;
A memory bereft of song—
My silent pain, my deepest keen.

You are a star of long ago—
A twinkling shape imbued with pride.
For you the seas will ebb and flow;
In time my heart from you will tide.