The Big Dipper
+ -The Big Dipper
- - - -After searching for days or even months
I finally find it reclining lazily
above the peaks above the city as if to ask
Did you miss me? Yes very much I reply
and rush to embrace it but it smiles
and recoils and tells me No no you
have to try harder than that it says
I do not give myself up so easily
I try a different tack
I sing to it bring it flowers nightly
I compare its eyes to the morning dew
it has not seen the morning dew
I say its mouth is the sunset over mountains
it knows mountains but the sunset
is only a rumor from the Evening Star
I tell the Big Dipper that it moves
like a quiet river across the earth
Rivers I have seen says the Big Dipper
they sparkle in the light from my stars
Your stars like eyes I say and it smiles
No it says that is too easy
It turns its back
it walks home along the back of the mountain
After searching for days or even months
I finally find it reclining lazily
above the peaks above the city as if to ask
Did you miss me? Yes very much I reply
and rush to embrace it but it smiles
and recoils and tells me No no you
have to try harder than that it says
I do not give myself up so easily
I try a different tack
I sing to it bring it flowers nightly
I compare its eyes to the morning dew
it has not seen the morning dew
I say its mouth is the sunset over mountains
it knows mountains but the sunset
is only a rumor from the Evening Star
I tell the Big Dipper that it moves
like a quiet river across the earth
Rivers I have seen says the Big Dipper
they sparkle in the light from my stars
Your stars like eyes I say and it smiles
No it says that is too easy
It turns its back
it walks home along the back of the mountain