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Watching the Meteor Showers (a poem)

Prompt: The new moon of August comes on Saturday the 11th this year, perfectly timed to bring dark, moonless nights around the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Indeed, 2018 is an excellent year to watch for these meteors; such moonless-sky conditions are ideal for observing the Perseids.
Write a story or poem using the meteor showers somehow. Have fun on this creative Saturday!
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Watching the Meteor Showers


I’ll leave this estate for another soon
migrating like a monarch butterfly
to slide on slopes of some unknown place

to mull over the dark beauty of a hybrid past
not grasping whether it is fact or false memory
when in rearview mirrors all will seem minute

like forgotten old melodies
of the reprisal kind
decrescendo, diminuendo

but tonight, I won’t lose my words in spooling themes
and I’ll let me celebrate your kisses and twinkling eyes
then eagerly gaze overhead for new sensations

away from earthly lights, as if in dreams,
at bright shooting stars showering in sheets
rigging the sky in one sprinkled symmetry of rocks