Shooting Star Generation

The world danced

With all the colors

We saved,

A celebration

Worth having

As we marked the day

On calendars

And filed away

To be reclaimed

By our hippocampus

When needed-

A joyous occasion

To be retold

To upcoming youth

That would need

Validation and evidence

Of a world

Where happiness

Was abundant

And love fell from trees,

And our dreams

Walked with us

Until we needed to run-

A world worth believing

We could create

From the work

Of our fingers

And longing of our hearts-

Our goals found truth

And structure

Within us

And we rose from the ashes

Of all we had destroyed

To reach our position-

From destruction

Comes beauty

From the erasure

Of self deprecation

We built a castle,

We built stability,

We built a ladder

Instead of a bridge

To reach the stars-

We pulled them to us

And celebrated

In their explosion

Of glory.

We were

Shooting stars

Illuminating a world lost in darkness

In the color

Of our victory.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet and novelist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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