Stars with the Weight of Tears Upon Their Back

The sky is heavy with forgotten light Each star a wound that never learned to close I speak your name into the quiet night But even silence seems to already know I walked alone beneath the silver fire Where constellations tremble like a tear They say the heavens never feel desire Yet I can hear them breaking when you're near Every shimmer holds a story left behind A love that time refused to understand And in the dust of something once divine I feel your absence written in the sand If light can bleed across the endless dark Then maybe sorrow travels just as far And every burning point that marks the arc Is just a memory of who we are Stars with the weight of tears upon their back Falling through the silence, never black Carrying the echoes of what we lost Measuring forever by the cost And I reach out through the endless air But only night is waiting there I trace the sky like pages torn apart Each constellation stitched with aching thread They map the places where you left my heart In words we never said before you fled The universe remembers every scar Even when we try to let it fade And what we were becomes a distant star Still burning in the vows we never made Still here… still here… In the light… in the fear… Stars with the weight of tears upon their back Turning every ending into lack But even broken light will find its way Into the dark that will not stay And though I cannot hold you anymore You shine where nothing dies before So I will listen to the sky at night And let it grieve in places I can’t see Until the stars forget what is right And finally remember how to be