I Saw A Man Counting Stars

I Saw A Man Counting Stars

I saw a man counting stars,
gathering them, one by one, into a sparkling book.

I asked him why.

He turned to me weeping eyes,
glinting grief infinite as the sky, and said,
"One of them is she. I must find her,
and un-say my final words."

Philip K Taggart
12-98

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