A Star with a Greater Purpose

I am a star that flickers like a dying flame.

No one understands why I am so sad

or see how the other stars laugh at me.

They tell me that I am to just stay in the sky

looking down

at the earth below.

I know that I have a greater purpose,

there is more out there for me.

The other stars say,

“What else could there be for a star like you?”

 I cry, trying to hide my tears

but they flow out like rain

they shimmer like glass.

I go to the end of the galaxy

and sit on its edge

thinking.

I call out to my creator, asking him

“Why did you create me the way I am?”

I struggle in the fight,  

That’s why I flicker, trying to hold on to who I am.

My creator comes and sits next to me.

“I love you for your flicker if I had wanted you

to be like the others I would have made you that way.”

He whispers in my ear and I beam.

I bow and dash across the Milky Way.

This is a special night

I am to shine brighter than the others

to light the way for those who

are to witness the great birth of the creator’s son.

The stars didn’t laugh that night, instead they plotted

I knew they wished me dead, but I also knew my creator had a plan.

One night the other stars came for me

they started a fight and cast me down to the earth.

As I fell I saw the babe as a grown man

being betrayed by his friends and killed.

I mourned and cried as I crashed to the earth.

I woke to the sound of men and women wailing

they rolled me in front of his tomb, where he was buried.

Three days later I was awaken by a bright light within the tomb.

There stood my creator’s son, he smiled at me and said,

“Dear star, don’t forget the love of your creator!”

I waited a long time after he left.

Finally someone remembered me

they came and broke me down

til all that was left of me was dust.

I thought, “What is to become of me now?”

Then the wind came and swept me up

I was scared at first because it would whip

and twirl, but then I burst out with laughter and color

it was like the dancing we used to do back in the night sky.

I let the wind carry me to a far away land

where I made myself happy by dancing and twirling

with bursts of joy and color praising my creator as I did.

The stars above looked down with awe and curiosity

they turned to each other and said, 
“That looks like so much fun, let’s see if we can join!”

And so they excitedly descended from the sky.

 “May we join you in your dance, please?”

 I didn’t want to say yes at first, but then I remembered

the love of my creator. “It would be my pleasure,

if you did!”

To this day we still dance in color together

I have seen people look up at us with awe and call us Aurora Borealis.

I taught the other stars how we are all meant to dream

and to do something great with those dreams.

When you look up in the sky and you see a falling star,

do not believe that it is merely a dead star falling to earth,

but rather

a star with a greater purpose…