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Tell me something of a star.
Tell me now, for who you are
Is not who you were yesterday.
Tell me something of a star.
Tell a thing that time can't mar,
True now as it was yesterday.
Tell me something of a star.
Tell me now, 'fore you're afar,
And now has become yesterday.
I can't kiss goodbye my yesterday, my friend.
Can't let it go, nor say "hello,"
To this day's sundown, yesterday.
So tell me now, just tell me;
Tell me something of a star.
That for a moment I might know
This stranger here from yesterday,
And who you really are.
Tell me now, for who you are
Is not who you were yesterday.
Tell me something of a star.
Tell a thing that time can't mar,
True now as it was yesterday.
Tell me something of a star.
Tell me now, 'fore you're afar,
And now has become yesterday.
I can't kiss goodbye my yesterday, my friend.
Can't let it go, nor say "hello,"
To this day's sundown, yesterday.
So tell me now, just tell me;
Tell me something of a star.
That for a moment I might know
This stranger here from yesterday,
And who you really are.
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I penned the whole of this poem at my Aunt's Christmas Choir performance a few years back, struck by some muse among their voices. It's not a very Christmasy piece, and in fact, isn't meant to have anything to do with it, but I can't help feeling that same sensation of longing for connection with others when I go back now and read it.
Copyright Cliff Davenport
Copyright Cliff Davenport
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It's beautiful, and though not Christmas-y, it certainly does connect with the truth and star-ness of it. 