I didn’t care where the shooting stars fell

as I watched them travel the night sky,

jet packed, pre-historic  revolutionary travellers

falling to ground in chunks, bombarding the Earth,

causing small dimples to pock-mark the scared green land,

for all I cared about was the dimples in your cheeks

as they rose higher and turned sacred red

as you watched in girlish anticipation

for another to wish your life upon.

We lay atop the roof of your Volkswagan, your baby,

yellow crusted, old cans and bottles rattling

against the engine, making it go faster through the

Oxfordshire countryside as we outran the past

for a couple of desperate hours and as the specks of dust

lit up the night sky, blazing fireballs the size of marbles,

Time was everywhere, yet the future had already been written

as much as the past had been glossed over

and the hands we held as we watched the marbles burn

were our own.

Ian D. Hall 2015.