The light is piercing through the lonely night 

The stars are filling up my soul

Each pinhole pricking my mind as it shines 

4.35 lightyears away

And it still dims my loneliness better than you 

I’m wishing on that evening star

And every meteoroid

They paint across the sky at 160,000 miles an hour

A fraction of my night

Yet one I’ll always remember 

I’m looking up and back into my past 

This light might have traveled 400,000 years

So I am bridging time and space 

But I wish more than anything 

That I could just be grounded here

I laugh, I cry, I make mistakes

And still the stars they shine

20 quadrillion miles of companionship

They shimmer, I sit

No apologies just listening  

I raise my face 

I’m in good company 

5,000 friends came out tonight 

Just to dance with me

If I only I could be a star, I wouldn’t be so lonely 

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