Spring Meteor Showers

Through icy velvet darkness,

past whirling planets and fiery stars,

whizzing by belts of rocks floating through space

soars a meteor.

A piece of a moon jolted loose,

A shattered asteroid eons old.

Or perhaps a slice of Venus or Jupiter.

Pushed and pulled by the gravities it passes,

It sails through the cosmos like a sailboat bobbing on the sea,

Finally, pulled into a blue planet’s embrace,

The ancient rock ablaze with heat and flames streaks across the darkened sky and

falls

into

a

quiet

lake.

Soft sizzling sounds sing in the night.

The moment passes and the rock cools at the bottom,

resting in the squishy mud below a mirrored surface

stardust camouflaged by waving weeds.