stardust, lying on the cold wet earth

The world outside is just so enticing
Glimmering with lights from neighboring houses

diffracting through needle-sized raindrops on my window pane
Those lights, they are like stars 
Like the stars hidden behind that vast cloud cover
Beaming with all the freedom that a star should have
In their black space meadow
With all sorts of colors and patterns and speeds and shadows 
Tracing their paths far across that dazzling playground

Spinning, sprinting with glee, those stars 
Without need for legs, they fly fast
Never knowing a ground or wooden floor 
Or what it feels like to be bound by gravity 
In a room with a wall-length window that glimmers with lights

I think i will leave soon
Maybe today or tomorrow
On a night where the sky is clear
So i can race alongside my friends 
finally pretend that im soaring 
I tire of my life behind the window 
Of my reflection, always watching me 
She loathes me, I know it 
She despises that girl that has chained her to the floor 

I will set you free, I tell her

Into puddles and lakes
Then rivers and oceans
Where the stars will swim with us

we'll play tag and catch them in our fingers
Until we become those twirling pins
Smaller and smaller, larger and farther 
freer still

It is not enough for me to be a swallow, she says

for surely the world will be so much bigger and brighter from the smoldering eyes of a star.