Stars
by Cassia Perez
Young Women’s Leadership Academy
Cassia Perez is a writer and artist from San Antonio, Texas. Her writing delves into the complexities of mortality and human emotion.
There has been a crack in your ceiling
For as long as you can remember
You’ve had dust on your face
As you rest
Below the stars in your room
Your own night sky.
I wish that I could protect them
From people
People everywhere
Grasping out
For what’s not theirs
For what they want
But don’t need
And will never need.
Because those are your stars
And they have their own night sky.
