sailor

nights when

Heart forgets Its beat

i like to go for a sail in the sky

cradled in moonlight warm

lulling to schools of shooting stars

i’d sail on in silence

let Heart do all the talking

and the stars all the answering

i’d wave hello to a few other stars

point them the false direction

hoping for a confused little dipper

that we might lose our way back home

and go on sailing with no course

and when Heart remembers

how to beat again

we’d sail on homeward

wherever

whatever

home turns out to be