The Daydream Effect

Hello, little star, where are you going today?

Your tail shoots out in a spark of new beginnings,

and I make a wish before you disappear from view.

Your brightness is a boon, a prize, a revelry—

all the more for me to admire from afar.

I want to catch you in my hand and show you off,

like a lightning bug caught in a jar in summer,

but you're just a fading moment in a sea of memory.

You cast your light for a time, only to go out in a burst,

and I wish I could follow you every which way.

You make the sky seem even bigger than it was before.

Goodbye, little star, I'll miss you when you're gone.

May your journey be fair and beautiful and true

as you beam across skies so far away from earth.