I miss the stars that glow at night....

I looked up to the empty skies above me. How I took for granted sleeping under those magnificient steady glowing lights every night. How I shall miss being kissed every morning with the first dew of the day. Those tears of a mighty God that fall on the earth each morning. How I will miss seeing the clouds roll past, strolling accross that clear night sky. How I will miss the view of the infected moon at harvest. The way the orange rusty ring hangs on it for dear life. How that glowing ember of matter seems to be impregnated and melancholy in itself. How the glow seems sinister, yet quite innocently standing by. Waiting for another night to pass by. To be kissed with those light flutters of tears from the skies. To hear the rustling music of the trees as they dance in the midnight hours. To feel a breeze so quietly placed on my skin, it feels like shuddering feathers upon me. I miss those days that I slept on mother earth. Smelled the fresh grass beaneath me. Being crowned by dandelions and having the crickets skittishly dance above me. To see the fireflies kiss each other with soft glowing light. To not be able to hear the life of the city, but only the earth's sounds. The hoot of a distant owl, questioning the breeze. I miss these things, as I lay in my empty bed. I yearn for the warmth of the earth rising through me, baking my skin, and feeling the cool grass wick the heat away. I miss that smell. Just before nightfall, this sandalwood-y smell, the smell of the Texas land beneath me. That smell of life, of birth, of death, of new beginnings that start at those untimely endings. How I miss those Texas stars. The stars of my youth, and my childhood. Where I would try as much as I could to count each star, to put a definite number on the infinite. I dream of star gazing in the night. How I would turn my young face towards the heavens and try to breathe in the star dust, to get a little of the magnitude I sensed in the skies. To be looked up to, like so many turn to the skies for answers. I miss the stars that glow at night....