Dejan Stojanovic - Poets
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    Afterlife Light


    That star in the night sky
    Is not there anymore
    But we see it and will see it
    For millions of years yet to come
    Did the star die?
    Did it live?
    In life, we call this phenomenon
    A ghost, a hallucination
    (Is life a ghost too?)
    What if the star never lived?
    Or maybe its death dies
    While the star continues to live
    Cheating death
    With its afterlife light

    -Dejan Stojanovic