Star Child

I was born in the belly of a star

The same atoms that fused hydrogen into helium,

Coalesced into my eyes and toes

My fingers reached the furthest stars,

Before they were my fingers

I was born in the belly of a star

Prudent, don’t you think?

A star-child should be destined for greatness

Prudent, a cosmic joke

The irony the universe must enjoy

As I stumble from one drug induced stupor,

To the next

Call me star-child for I ride these waves

My life an ocean of sea salt collecting along the river Nile

I am going back to the sun

I am going back to my mother

I was foolish for trying to be

I was foolish for being born