Stars

Stars sung by The Weepies

Video tribute to a son stillborn at 8 months

"Back and forth we ply these oars

They move in time and get entwined..."

My little story:

I was looking up at the sky the other night to see if I could see a star that reminded me of you and I thought I heard two of them twinkling the way that stars sometimes do.

“How do you tell those small beings apart? They all look the same from here. And their lives seem so very, very short.”

“Well, that one over there is a mime, so that you have to listen for her voice. And that one talks all the time so you have to look at what he does.”

“That’s ridiculous,” one of the stars said.” I myself had some trouble  telling which one was twinkling what.

But the other star said quite clearly, of course it’s ridiculous. Look, the mime keeps her voice under her hat and it laughs out of her eyes. You realize, of course, that most of those beings cannot hear us when we laugh, either. They can only see our silence. ‘Ridiculous’ is but the half of it.

It might have been my imagination, but a star whistled across my vision so quietly that I nearly missed it.

“So, who was that?” one star twinkled.

“Was she falling?” the other one said. “I wasn’t looking in that direction.”

“Well she reminded me of someone.”

“Oh, you should know by now that falling is a law of nature. We burn brighter and get dimmer when we do.”

“That’s ridiculous,” the first one twinkled.

“Of course, it’s ridiculous. And those beings down there fall at lot like that too. They call one kind of falling 'love,' but they were all born yesterday like so many kittens, as far as I’m concerned. There eyes are barely open. And they’re constantly tumbling all over each other.”

“Ridiculous.”

“Yes, but if you know how to look, you can hear them twinkle."