We Could Be Stars

• Najah Mohamed Ajwath, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2022

Sometimes

As I gaze up into the black

Shadowed by outlines of swooping birds

Diamond-white stars drifting in ethereal song

My face an echo of a pale moon

Sinking sadly to the west in a pearly outline

And I stare at the sky

And I wonder

If I too could be a star