Spring fever spell, cast by a benevolent incubus, fells its victims by willing dream-like participation in their own doom. April’s madness winds its tumultuous way through a trance-like state; powerless against its destined arc across the firmament, a star brings heat and hope to the arcane covenant between two people. Pinpricks of light in the night sky like holes in aluminum foil. We were only children once.
Remember when we met
We acted like two fools
We were so glad
So glad to have found it
That love is like a star, it’s gone
We just see it shining
It’s traveled very far, I’ll
Keep a leftover light burning
So you can keep looking up
Isn’t that worth holding on?
A star in the sky or a star in the garden – a star of celestial grandiosity or a star of Columbine.
You know I’d always been alone
‘Til you taught me
To live for somebody
That love is like a star
It’s gone, we just see it shining
‘Cause it’s traveled very far, I’ll
Keep a leftover light burning
So you can keep looking up
I am yours
A girl once accepted my marriage proposal in grade school. She was the first one to love me in any romantic sense – at least as romantic as a grade schooler could be – and I didn’t quite know what to do with it. We went on a date at the local candy shop, sharing sundaes at the counter while I kept a furtive eye on the door to make sure no classmates could see us. She’d share her pizza with me at lunch, and I felt guilty about it, wondering if she would give me everything in all the days that followed, no matter if she was hungry herself. If you’ve been lucky enough to have been loved in such a way during your formative years, you take that with you for the rest of your life, but you will always wonder if you’ll ever be worthy of it.
No matter that love’s gone
We just see it shining
We’ve traveled very far, I’ll
Keep a leftover light burning
So you can keep looking up
Isn’t that worth holding on?
