They are distant, surreal
Unblinking and lovely
Always watching
Never spilling
The secrets
that have been whispered
through the night
Regal and untouchable
Shimmering quietly
like a fragment of sunshine
caught on the ceiling
Coquettish and irresistable
look, long, listen
wishes, woes, wails,
Stoic, proud, eternal
They are immortal witnesses
on the stand
Fragments of all of us.
