What a beautiful, and most: What a beautiful, and most poignant, lament---for lost love, lost friendship, lost closeness and nearness. I hope this situation will resolve itself for you . . . but the way you write of it calls for more poems in this same voice, and on this same subject. There are others---many of whom you will not meet or know directly---who can be helped by such a poem.
Not if people with pitchforks: Not if people with pitchforks and catapults don't show up due to being mentally neutralized by their smart phones and televisions ; )
"Soft-spoken wars": "you wear the dark,
you are the dark,
you float..."
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Your "delicate armies" of stars continue a long chronical of ways to not just view, but experience stars. Orion (pronounced oorian) is a fav constellation of mine since age 8-9. Cass is my other fav.
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~A~