Starlit Wishes
This week’s poem marks the twenty-ninth entry in my song-inspired series of poems! I actually have a cool little bit of trivia to go along with this week’s poem – there’s a poem, which you may have previously seen on the blog, that I wrote with the name of this week’s song inspiration, ‘Take Me With You’ by Neck Deep – and also a similar extra-terrestrial theme to the song. I’m actually not sure if the song was a subconscious inspiration for that poem, but it’s nevertheless a cool coincidence! That poem also managed to show up on the blog twice – you might have seen it here or here! But anyway, I hope you enjoy this week’s poem!
First Poem In This Series: To Witness, To Behold, inspired by ‘Sowing The Seeds Of Love’ by Tears For Fears
Previous Poem In This Series: Stop And Smell The Roses, inspired by ‘Avant Gardener’ by Courtney Barnett
Starlit WishesHolding hands in the backseat,
stargazing at forty miles per hour
and maintaining conversation,
somehow, above biting nostalgia
through speakers that thrum,
just a little, and fill a long,
empty night with a little life.
Looking up and wondering how,
why, when someone put all those
beautiful sparks in the sky,
and who reaches up and nudges them,
one by one, until a sunrise spills
across them, and ruins the work
with a hazy masterpiece in pink.
Making a wish on a trail
that could be a smudged plane,
or a tired firework, or
a crash landing’s final sputters;
leaning against a shoulder,
wondering at how the beauty
of indigo can become grey.
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