Celestial

I am the girl

with a constellation slashed 

across my neck.

An incomplete formation

missing a few stars.

I wish I could throw

my suns up in the air

to join their kin in the sky.

Yet here they stay,

imprinted onto skin,

forever trapped 

in the cage that is my body;

A thing so far from celestial,

planted firmly in the earth. 

From my prison, 

I gaze up and the clouds 

shroud the moon.