Promising Stars

When I think of all the things I’ve lost

Buttons, pencils, homework, money. A friend.

I wonder why the thing I missed the most

Was my history homework,

True, I got a detention for not doing it

But what’s detention, compared to loneliness?

I just opened my bag and it wasn’t there

With my teacher standing over me

I couldn’t not know

But I didn’t notice as you slipped away

I didn’t notice until you were gone

And by then it was too late

By then I was surrounded by darkness

The sun forever gone from my sky

The stars shining so far away

With promises of new hope

But they are further away than I can ever go

So they can only ever be promising stars

Their promises unkept.