Star stripped sky!

The night sky today is bleak and morose

all the twinkling stars have gone into hiding

Dense dark clouds have reported for duty instead

Closing all traffic for the star lights to come down

Darkness has befallen with a star stripped sky

Star lights are heaven’s angels

Carrying the stories of the stars,

Their birth, their times and death

Through million, billion, trillion light years

In kaleidoscopic brilliance

Stars are not the sole residents of

The sprawling space colony

Neutron stars, pulsars, black holes et. al.,

Make up the rest of the space dwellers

Throwing clues on the origin of the universe

The star stripped sky

Has stopped all those star movies

Shown from dusk to dawn

It’s dark barren screen all over the sky

Darkness is the only show now on display!

Let the dark clouds drift off

Then the star lights will begin to show up

Star stripped sky will be star filled sky then

Star lovers! Let’ s go home, take a break

Come another day the stars will be back!

-Mohan Sanjeevan