Love Poem: Meteor Shower
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Written by: Perla Zepeda

Meteor Shower

Your stars are falling gracefully,
but mine are crashing.
Your resentment is painfully justified.
But my love is too.

thoughts swarm the universe
the world I created in my own head
where you read me your verse 
and I add another 

a world where I don’t have to wait 
for your stars to follow mine
Or some sort of fairytale fate 
because we’re effortlessly aligned

I tell you
“my thoughts are like a meteor shower”
you tell me
“meteors crash”

But they’re also radiant
creating a beam that’s hard to ignore
so I don’t mind if we crash
even if you embed your stars into my mind