Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi of Ariel Chart for publishing this poem.


https://www.arielchart.com/2020/08/on-smiling-night.html

On A Smiling Night

I sing,

and the stars answer.

My spirit rises to meet them.

Those points of light

that have traveled beyond worlds

I can only imagine.

Candlelight,

secret fires’ dying flames,

carried through the universe.

They twinkle

as cosmic breezes

blow over their torches.

Stars, perished,

from dead worlds.

I contemplate their messages

as I gaze into the night sky,

and watch these former

grandfathers of the galaxies

smile their last smile.