The Starfishsecret Poem by Jim Yerman

Walking on the beach, pre dawn,
we hadn't travelled very far
When my daughter pointed to the sky and said,
"Look! a shooting star! "

A little further down the beach...
as if miraculously planned...
Glowing in the waning moonlight...
a starfish
in the sand.

"Could this be the same star
we saw shoot across the night? "
I smiled at her innocence and said,
"I bet you're right."

I shall never forget her smile
on the beach that early morn
when she discovered the secret...
of how starfishes are born.