My Star
There’s one particular
Star in the night sky
That I know is my star.
I know it’s mine because
It’s faint and flickering
Like a candle burning
Near its wick’s end.
Once a mighty presence.
Now more a memory.
A memory engulfed
by a sea of memories
Tossing and turning
On the tides of an
Ever ebbing mind.
In the end, you just sit
And television is your
Only friend. Others
Can’t be bothered
With the likes of you.
Their own stars are
Shining and rising with
The moon and need
Tending before they,
Too, begin to flicker.
©2023 Daniel S. Irwin All rights reserved.
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Daniel S. Irwin was born, raised, and is back in town at Sparta, Illinois. His card reads: Artist, Actor, Writer, Soldier, Scholar, Priest. He has won awards for his art, acting (over 100 films and 30+ stage productions), writing (nine books and work published in over one hundred magazines and journals world-wide), retired military (Air Force and Army), graduate of Southern Illinois University/Carbondale and has attended four other universities), and is an ordained Dudeist priest with a Ph.D. in Divinity (not bad for a heathen). Once worked as a medic in an institution for the criminally insane…but didn’t notice anything strange about the inmates. Latest on-line work can be found on Horror, Sleaze, Trash Magazine and Beatnik Cowboy. He would love to move back to Europe but fears the plague.
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