The starlight sat within the star
It sat inside the lungs
Waiting for its time to shine
Twiddling its thumbs
It slowly wriggled out towards
The surging and the flares
Then took inside one great deep breath
And jumped off from the edge
The light it sped at the speed of light
It sped throughout the void
Dipped a toe in a mercury moon
Bounced off an asteroid
Then something distant caught its eye
For even light must rest
It set sail for a place to call home
A tiny pale blue speck
The speck it bulged with every mile
Until it filled the view
The swirling clouds and rolling seas
Of white and green and blue
But now the starlight burned inside
The starlight yearned for home
And that was waiting further down
In a garden, all alone
So as you stood in your backyard
And gazed up at the sky
The gleeful starlight hurtled down
And landed in your left eye
Your thirsty pupil drank it in
The starlight fizzled through
And crackling through your synapses
It began to become you