The Humble Firefly – A Poem

By Caitlyn Koser

Fireflies blink in the hastening dusk

Dashing across the meadows

Brightening the country’s sweet-smelling musk

Wandering through the corn’s neat straight ‘rows.

Over the brook, past the wood

Through the cemetery near the church

As if even they should

Pay respects to the memories floating through the ancient birch.

Back through the woods they fly

Ducking here and there countless times

A few losing their way and going awry

Life can be that way sometimes.

Sometimes we’re going strong

Then we falter and lose our way

And just like the fireflies in the cornrows stretched so long

Wander in an endless maze.

It can seem hopeless sometimes

Lost in a fog of flickering doubts

A puzzle of meaningless rhymes

Not knowing where to turn about.

Gradually, slowly, small lanterns flicker back

Their lights glittering a little more brightly, they hurry nye

A group of fireflies without one lack

We can all learn something from the humble firefly.

Caitlyn Koser

Caitlyn Koser is a young teen writer who loves spending time in God's outdoors, reading, and (obviously) writing. She primarily writes historical fiction and has previously submitted to therebelution.com. She hates cliches and those little blinker thingies. Caitlyn aspires to be a published writer and a scientist someday, and hopes to use her gift of writing talent for God's glory. Her first novels consisted of people finding long-lost twin birth certificates under floorboards and falling down waterfalls (with a painful number of cliches).