The Shooting Star [Poem]

The Shooting Star
By: Stamatis Kakleas

Without warning you broke the horizon, catching my eye

Stealing my attention from everything in sight

No one was around to judge, so I stared up high

Surrounded by darkness, you provided me light

I was speechless in awe, as you made your way by

The sensation you gave, I cannot describe

Your beauty, your magnificence, they lit up my sky

You wouldn’t be there for long and I knew why

Because you’re a shooting star in the dim of the night

So I made a wish…I wished I could fly

To be able to chase you, to catch you I’d try

And then;

Without warning you vanished, never saying goodbye


One of my posts, ‘Curveballs and Shooting Stars’, was actually based off this poem I wrote. I was just sitting there one day thinking about the various curve-balls life throws at us and that is when it dawned on me that certain phenomena can’t simply be deemed as ‘curve-balls’ and deserve a more majestic title.

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