Stars in Heaven

She’s told you she found heaven in your eyes.

I think it’s fair to warn you; I think she lies.
She’s named a thousand stars that way.
She loves the darkness,
searching for the light,
white, hot, flickering,
in the blackness of it all,
cuz only stars and lonesome lovers
come out at night.
I heard she has a mural
of the constellations
on her bedroom wall
and when it’s raining,
she can name them all.

She’s told you she found heaven in your eyes.
She told me that too. I think she lies.

11 March 2009

Inspired by Willie Nelson’s “She’s Not For You”