“I Wish I Were”

This is from the Daily Post’s Weekly Writing Challenge, to finish a sentence beginning with “I wish I were”:

I wish I were the sun on high

Witness to an eternity

Of twilights falling over Earth

And over humanity

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Myself the roiling light that saw

Darkness take on form

Chaos nursing galaxies

While my body warmed

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Time in another measure,

If I were this planet’s star

My lifespan made tangible

A light-year near and far

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For I would know vast distances

And universal beauties

And after human empire

I would learn what is to be

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© 2012, Elizabeth Cook