Eulogy for the Stars

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once we believed the stars
were radiant balls of light—
not relics,
just ghosts.almost too matter of fact, you have to set us up somehow and sometimes a statement does it, dies this mean though at one point we did believe stars were ghosts, or when we finally believe the stars were ghosts.   Once is a weird word

we named them
like children
we could never raise 
and let them burn  yes I want to burn the children, I really like the block of lines

but they never did—
they only died
(quietly),
millions of years away:
their silence gradually i don't like the flow of gradually to mistaken
mistaken for warmth.

now,
the sky is full
of things
that don't dare to burn— why not dare?
light still arriving,
long after
it mattered. Is it too clever ending with matter?

Anyways thanks for sharing, I think its close