Hello!
This is a beautiful poem with such rich, delicious imagery.
I think it's kinda perfect already, but I'll try to help in some way. Honestly, I wouldn't take my advice unless you want to overhaul the whole poem. As it is, all the things I'm about to complain about WORK /because/ they're all together. The superlong sentences wouldn't work unless you had a train-of-thought sort of thing going on, with extra words and things that don't quite connect logically. But because together, and because it's obvious they were done on purpose, those things both work.
The rest of this review will be me contradicting what I just said.
SO.
I agree with Nutty that the sentences are too long. You read, and read, and read, and you never get to stop. I think there's 6 periods in the entire poem. And the only "short" sentence is the very first line. It's good to vary your sentence lengths. It keeps the flow fresh.
This is very wordy, and at the end, I wouldn't be able to tell you what it was really about. That's fine if you really just want it to /feel/ dreamy and beautiful, but if you want to actually get a real point or narrative across, you need to cut down on words that are less important. Also, if you want to keep the reader's attention, it might be good to make it a bit shorter. If /I/ was picking the parts that had the least impact on me, I'd probably cut out the "holding hands" to "inconceivably full" section, and any parts that go with that. It feels like that part doesn't fit as well with the story of stars etc.
So yeah, just cutting down on extra words. Try reading the sentences and writing them as if they were prose, so the reader can easily grasp the point of a particular sentence or line.
I don't really have much else to say though. Reading this just made me feel comfy, and I like the line about drowning in neon. I thought that was really cool.
Hope this helps somewhat. I really liked this poem. Keep writing!
~fortis
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