One in a million

I've carved my charm into the arms of a million stars and counting
and they've let me down 999,999 times now
So when the clouds cover over the constellations and skies are crowded
I spill ink
drip by drip
Onto the lips of phrases and the tongues of rhymes
And somehow keep from drowning
In the slumber that waits for everyone
When nothing matters but the gathering of families to scatter ashes
While the incandescent laughter rattles its lid
Away in the wind where I was once a beginning
and now
am an ending composition
The transition is peaceful
The world a benign strumming of a distant song too low to be heard and too constant to not be disturbing
Steeples will raise until our end of days
But a spiritual man only needs to meditate
Sink back into nature
We prosper not when our wallets are fully stocked
But when the love in our hearts outweighs the hateful thoughts
It's been stapled into my core
Where humanity lives in folklore
And sometimes I'm surprised
but mostly just full of anxiety
I used to worry too much
now I worry that I worry too much in comparison to how much I used to worry too much
I succumb to the urges
throw caution to the breeze
And let it carry me home
Where I am safe on my pillow
Beside my wife to be