{"sf1_id":505613,"sf2_id":"znJRVqBn","title":"Shooting Down Stars","author":"Dean Blitz","words":116,"posted_at":"2013-02-24T03:57:00.000Z","tags":["Clean","No-Yiff","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/505613-shooting-down-stars","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/znJRVqBn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/09/ac/09acac3f-3a0c-49a1-b019-4a37b3ec53a1","description":"Just something I wrote back in September that I decided to do something with. Nothing special or creative really. It's better to write about writing than writing absolutely nothing at all, I guess.\nEden Chronicles is in the process of getting a face-lift. It's just all over the place. I'm currently trying to reign things in. The ideas are there, but structure is a fatal weakness of mine.","content":"I try to hold back the anxieties\n\nOf tight-rope dancing over a thin\n\nEdge of words.\n\nI stumble and pray\n\nThat the net of good intentions below\n\nWill catch me as I plummet through an\n\nAtmosphere of mental discourse and flash photography.\n\nThere is an imagined shock and awe as I crash and burn,\n\nLeaving a streak across the page.\n\nInstead of the star I aspire to be,\n\nI get pulled back down to earth\n\nWhere I smolder in the stratosphere.\n\nA meteorite posing as a shooting star,\n\nBut still,\n\nSomewhere,\n\nYou hope that the burning graphite\n\nThat aspired to be a statement\n\nIs caught in the eye of\n\nA stranger\n\nAnd becomes a wish instead.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}