Wish Upon a Star

Dark meets light in an age-old dance of skin Slick with sweat And sounds Too primal to be just moans

Though their skin so clearly reflects Their utterly incomprehensible incompatibility Beneath those pigments Beat two hearts Which pound To the same furious rhythm A joining far older Than the prejudice that forbids Any degree of association Between light and dark

And yet As stars shine within a blanket of darkness Leaving the world cloaked in the softness of shadows So do these unlucky lovers burn Hidden from those who profess to know better And dream of a tomorrow untainted by fear