On A Comet's Tail : Sad Poetry

On A Comets Tail

I gazed out my bedroom window

toward a small corner of the sky

watching stars winking

like miniature fireflies.

The night was to carry meteor showers

that descend as the rain

but, I waited and waited

and my wish never came.

I only sought a piece

of the quiet starry night.

I only wanted to glimpse

one star in its’ enchanted flight.

I coveted my wish to reach Heaven

on the flames of a comet’s tail,

I searched for that blaze

But, in the end I would fail.

Maybe, when I don’t request

the sky to boast in front of me

God will permit just one star

to soar from Heaven, free.

Then I will wish the laughing smile

that once held within Andrea’s eyes,

replace the hollowness in her mothers’

where her own smile only cries.