Francesca Stewart writes poetry about time and the timeless, beauty, nature, and emotion.
Under an ocean of stars
I stand and remember
The loves that I have lost
Bones of yesterday
Buried deep beneath
The sands of time
Cascading
Through the hourglass
Unstoppable
As the loss of youth
And constant
As the turning of the earth
And in this solitude
Struck by mortality
A comet blazes forth
Lighting up the sky
Crashing at my feet
He is all fire
And glory
Eyes bright with passion
And fury
The urgency of a warrior
The night before battle
To live, breathe and exist
Through the eyes
And in the arms of another
Charred skin
Across my heart
In the shape of a handprint
Lips parched with a thirst
That will never be slaked
I feel my feet sink into the sand
Bones becoming yesterday’s
And I am buried to the knee
Rooted in place
I look up at the stars
And wait for the night sky
To swallow me whole.