Only a fool will wish upon a falling star

Burning its tail, beyond human reach

Falling stars will wait to fall,

Some old lessons to teach

A bad karma, shooting through the sky

Its brilliance set upon its tail;

Sailing through the night in maddening fervour -

Wishing for one more chance to stay put

In a deep inky ocean of black

Even falling stars can’t go back

Only a fool will take recourse

In prayers set upon a burning tail

Dizzying heights don’t sanction grace

Falling stars won’t make amends -

Falling so deviously into a stretch of eternity

No falling star can hand a pardon for impunity

Only a fool will wish upon a falling star

Romanticised in deep poetic trance

One that falls so unstable

Should not have been so fabled;

At least in its death it could have been spared –

The burden of human addiction for grace

Some more, and then some more

Falling, so dazed –

Into the inevitable;

Whizzing in the night light –

In death, most bright

Singing its swansong

Of old pains, old dreams, all astray

Old scars,

Cosmic whispers, haunting

Only a fool will wish upon a falling star

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