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