STAR SUITE II. Fading Star

First night and feeling giddy a stranger in the city and she smiles like a child to the familiar sky: “Star light, star bright I wish upon a star tonight I wish I may, I wish I might See you somewhere out tonight...” Where did they go? The stars shudder, swallowed by deafening neon lights drowning and pounding her senses as she tenses feeling defenses her body has never known She thought she was grown ready to deal steady to feel the new ground but instead her head spins around with people walking big and talkin' loud saying nothin', goin' nowhere fast This was not what she asked for Confused by moving lips and legs and lights that blind her mind she escapes and hopes to wake to a better tomorrow She can't see Eyes open Neighbors drunken Empty slogans Spirits fallen Sadness woken Innocence stolen Hearts broken Hope forsaken Life's tokens Dreams slacken Rules once golden now forgotten and she can't see into the mirror without a furor over her changing reflection the soul's contradiction with dimming light behind her eyes as dark as the midnight skies but she sees Dem city girls with iron curls and scope of views narrow emotions and perspectives so shallow only an echo of conscience in the space that's hollow that's ignored as they pour over catalogues and like rogues roam from shop to shop til they drop and cops listening to hip hop trying to put their finger on their blunders and the pulse of the street too scared of the heat of the beat to get the deep gutteral sounds of hunger and anger to really understand the language of the rhythm but instead they keep their hand on the trigger of cynicism she sees too much and not enough of what she wants to see