Rock Star Wishes
Stars are really rocks,
ancient, hydrogen
and helium burning
from their core,
shooting points of light
across the universe
millions of miles to
where you and I stand
in the cool night air,
holding hands, our love
hotter than the star’s fire,
so sure of each other,
we’re willing to hang
our dreams on a rock
the size of a firefly.
Patricia Hope’s award-winning writing has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Number One, Pigeon Parade Quarterly, 2021 Anthology of Appalachian Writers, The Mildred Haun Review, Liquid Imagination, American Diversity Report, and many others. She lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Stars are really rocks,
ancient, hydrogen
and helium burning
from their core,
shooting points of light
across the universe
millions of miles to
where you and I stand
in the cool night air,
holding hands, our love
hotter than the star’s fire,
so sure of each other,
we’re willing to hang
our dreams on a rock
the size of a firefly.
Patricia Hope’s award-winning writing has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Number One, Pigeon Parade Quarterly, 2021 Anthology of Appalachian Writers, The Mildred Haun Review, Liquid Imagination, American Diversity Report, and many others. She lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
