Orion Watches{09.20.09}
Orion hangs high above me
flirting with the horizon
of a hill
huge, like a god's eye
looming and leering
as if watching over me
in its brilliance this night
and I laugh at myself
the farcical notion
that a cluster of stars
spaced by thousands of light years
from each other and
millions from me
would throw a care
across the cosmos for
a miniscule being
such as myself.
but the hope
is part of the light
continuously bouncing
back and forth
between us, so
I keep imagining
with feigned naivete
that Orion watches over me.
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