What is the measure in space for mercy?
Will luck always dangle a tether over soaring stones
until it spills into our life,
waves of repercussions suddenly washing over reality?
But in the gaze into that starry tapestry
we can’t help feel the tension,
helpless to derail an asteroid train,
letting the moment not sting the heart with panic,
so we can return to the consciousness cocoon
turn on our a DVD copy of Armageddon
and slip away from the concern
that somewhere out in that deep darkness
there lurks a planet killer.
By morning comes the release of meteor paranoia,
day always the frail façade of security,
stopping in the pace of our distractions
as a comet of anxiety streaks across our minds,
shuddering silently while truly bathed in the awareness
of how Mother Earth has no shield
against the universe’s arsenal.
Always gripping with the vice grip of pressure
from sensing how often this world has been spared
some celestial missiles devastation.
Perhaps clinging to the idea of divine intervention
or simply shoving those thoughts back into a closet,
while hoping that what waits to rip through our atmosphere
shall end up being a shooting star
granting our wish
for another day without a cosmic cataclysm.
Author notes
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A contest entry
- Asteroid - Near Miss by aboomer.
700 points, ended March 26, 12 entries
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Love the wording and depth in this - excellent! I especially like your last verse - do we just by-pass our minds around the thoughts of disaster - and hope for something good instead of something bad? I like the thought of the shooting stars - granting our wishes.
Very nicely done!
thank you for your entry
best wishes in the contest
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Interesting thoughts here, do you think this way or was it a prompt that toke you down this roar.
I'm afraid I'm sitting in that closet.
Well done good luck in the contest.
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Such amazing images and metaphors you used this prompt for. Trule some deep and excellent thought in this.
Best wishes in the contest.
Gaylene
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a wonderful write good luck in the contest
maralisa
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very well-written. Never thought of shooting star the way u thought...we always take things for granted, never aware of the danger in the universe, and how much, luck, or divine intervention actually playing its part...like it. Good luck!
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