Wait for the Light
Down the heavens, thru the clouds,
across the winds that churn the night,
the velvet darkness pins the sky
with stars of a silvern light.
At a gallop in the dark, the light rays come,
first the fast, then behind come the slow.
They both reach the eye at slight different times
and a Twinkle is their impacts aglow.
In that blink, some men see their last Hope.
In its flash, some men hear their Faith
and a dim corner shows my old Courage lost
now lit by this messenger of Space.
And it seems that the Infinite is speaking
to me, Man the infinitely small,
that we are both the ends of a cosmic circle
not touching but embracing us all.
And the unmeasured distance between us
is a breath, a heartbeat or sigh
in the Voice which talks thru a velvet darkness
locked in the twinkling of an eye.
So in the silent and echoless vast uncertain
dim of some darkened night
when one star blinks and jumps great distance
straddled to a cosmic light
and blacker than a million midnights
is that span of a chasmed sea;
if you listen for the light, in the twinkling of an eye,
it will speak to the dark in thee.
HH
Down the heavens, thru the clouds,
across the winds that churn the night,
the velvet darkness pins the sky
with stars of a silvern light.
At a gallop in the dark, the light rays come,
first the fast, then behind come the slow.
They both reach the eye at slight different times
and a Twinkle is their impacts aglow.
In that blink, some men see their last Hope.
In its flash, some men hear their Faith
and a dim corner shows my old Courage lost
now lit by this messenger of Space.
And it seems that the Infinite is speaking
to me, Man the infinitely small,
that we are both the ends of a cosmic circle
not touching but embracing us all.
And the unmeasured distance between us
is a breath, a heartbeat or sigh
in the Voice which talks thru a velvet darkness
locked in the twinkling of an eye.
So in the silent and echoless vast uncertain
dim of some darkened night
when one star blinks and jumps great distance
straddled to a cosmic light
and blacker than a million midnights
is that span of a chasmed sea;
if you listen for the light, in the twinkling of an eye,
it will speak to the dark in thee.
HH
