Past Tense

"I lay in the shadows of the night. The air is cool I tip up my head to stare at the stars. Sometimes I wish I was one of them. Maybe someday I will be, glowing bright in someone's life. Not just while I am on earth, but after I am gone. Time goes by so fast. I keep trying to grasp, to treasure each moment, but some as always remain better than others. I touch my tree behind me. Thank you, I think, thank you for your strong trunk, your leaves that turn red's, gold's, and yellows, for October days that will arrive once summer is gone. I look out into space letting myself be unaware of anything, but now. This moment, once gone, gone forever as time marches on I hope to move forward. I can never go back."-Angela K. Crandall, Author