Leap Year
LEAP YEAR
On one leap year day
With great wonderment and joy
I looked up in the sky
I saw one bran new star
The star was so bright
I wondered from where it came
When I looked down below
With great sorrow
I found one star gone
Where there were three
Now there are two
Where a star filled my heart
Now a hole
Now two stars burn brighter than before
They fill the lost star’s place
I once saw three
With tears I see two
With watered eyes I look up
I see a star burn brighter than before
I lower my head
I discover the missing star
Has re-found home in me
On one leap year day
Robert Mitchell Sr.
written for Kristin Mitchell