marooned

please mother earth

let me scatter the world within me

to the world

teach me in every country

to be a star piercing the night

let my light fall on maps

let it reach the pockets of lost people

then ignite the sky within me

let the galaxies spin beneath my ribs

and see

how the so called small man

can shame the darkness of the world

with even a single step

and if one day i fade away

let them not mistake me for the night

let me just be

a weary star

leaving its light to someone else