Chasing Amazing Things

She wanted amazing things

so she ran towards the sunset

thinking she could grasp the shining light in her hands

and hold it forever

forever.

She found herself on a cliff

watching the orange glow she was chasing

burn before her eyes

and sink beneath the mountains.

She had nothing left in her legs to run with

and so she sat

and watched

and weeped

for the beauteous thing that had escaped her.

When her tears left her eyes

at last

She lay back to rest and found

that she had not lost the most beautiful thing yet

for there were the stars

a million of her burning lights,

and a billion specks of darkness

all more beautiful than anything she had ever known.