Just Weep

by Ice Star

Something Did This

You do not know—
how to be homesick for a place
with no parents waiting there
The whole world yawns—
no creatures are falling out
to greet you
anywhere

Every cycle of the heavens
on a planet that your parents used to tilt
is now a time for sleeping
and waking
wondering—

Will any but her ever be there?

You used to have a family beyond the limits
of one enchanted forest
in a kingdom belonging to four
and an empire
with aunts, uncles, cousins, and
others of your race—
All before it became one neglected garden
crying out with
naught but winds and silence—

Something did this—

Something
far away
from here
ripped every town
citadel
wandering soul
and talking creatures away
leaving only two fillies
and a promise
to not disappear