Night Voices

As I stared into the night sky

it caressed my cheek and

touched me as it had

the lives before it

as it told me the stories

of those who suffered and

barely

managed to live before me

It was telling me the tales of those

who didn’t have the voice to do so

The twinkle in its blackness told me

of the light that shined

in the lives before me

It paved the way

as it opened up for miles and miles

up

and up

until it hit the heavens

the heavens that are in doubt

the heavens that keep those voices

from us so that we may hear

our own