TO THE MEMORY OF STAR

TO THE MEMORY OF STAR
by Melody Collier

I pray you do not share with me the loneliness and agony,
Since death has claimed you for her own and taken you to shores unknown,
I pray you do not wonder why I do not answer if you cry,
Nor stroke your coat with loving hand.
I fear you may not understand,
That for a while our paths must part,
although I hold you i my heart,
I do not want your peace to be lost in a loneliness for me,
I pray you do not gaze for me in vain through some celestial windowpane.