by Ann Taylor

Created on: April 22, 2009

Starry Eyed

A billion
smiles
shine down
from those
who have
left
this space,
but remain
everywhere
within
us.

A million-billion
smiles
that never
cease
to show
themselves,
through rain
and wind,
and cloudy
skies,
incessant
and
pure.

A million-billion-trillion
smiles
that light
our way
through thick
and thin,
despair
and hope,
in giving up
and trying again,
unstoppable
yet always
probable.

How many smiles
can you see
as you scan
the vastness
of it all,
dumbstruck
and dubious,
glorious
and free in
the darkness
of night.

Uncountable
smiles
from high
above,
unbridled
and abandoned,
sustaining and
effervescent,
true givers
of light,
forever
shining
and bright.

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