discovered
stars were buttons.
If a human could reach them,
the world would change.
The sky remains bright
with eyes
that blink a known reality of beauty
untouched by man
who in his ignorance, is filled
with a wild passion
to change everything.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.