A sense of wonder, utter reverence ‘n awe
Escapes only the blind to behold marvels
In clear night skies, studded with a trillion
Galaxies, each holding a trillion twinkling stars
Rendering numbers futile
Leaving minds numbed, lost
Only egos dare claim to know
Defying reality, time, space
To awe earthlings, shrimps ‘n beasts
With no more to the majesty arrayed
Than a peek into antiquity coming alive
Rocks, pebbles, boulders mountains
Mammoth to humans, but real colossi dance in silence
Such celestial immensities
Sheer poetry ballooning
Human minuteness ever dwindling
If all seem like specs, what would we be?
Fiery, perchance freezing airlessly
Or dancing scorched, twirling eternally
As planets circle their suns, some packed with life
Moons circling their planets musically
Cosmos swelling giddily, hyper fast
Humans left to surmise
Of majesties beyond
While busy mashing selves
As vision’s enhanced, with Hubble in space
A tiny heavenly spot before, now unveils countless
More galaxies ever more distant, strange
Deriding our impotence in grasping hugeness
As we tacitly declare sloppiness
Creating gods to worship self
Each time we think
We know, unveils the little we know
As hollowness swells
Struggling to yearn
Of celestial largess
Floating to serve endless greed
Bottomless pockets to swell
Left talking possibilities
Negating impossibilities
Cues to turn our minds’ Hubble inward
Toward fading essences, inflated egos
Turning selves into mirrors
Reflecting outer marvels into inner ones
Wonders crying for love
Waiting to be seen, to be felt
Alas, multi-verses await those with eyes
To feel essences, soulful rhythms
Ears fully synced with silent symphonies
Sung by cells, nerves, humors, atoms, working
In wholesome balance with internal tempers
Striving to be at one with kindred exteriors
A continuum sensed by few
That shun harm
On fellow man
Knowing that identical blocks building universes
Build all else, humans too … unity in diversity
Those yearning lives of peace, not deaths by war
Knowing that marvels inside equal those out
Trillions of cells, harbor trillions of atoms
Obeying universal gems of wisdom
Aces of design
Tiny veiled elements
Selflessly serve
Obeying Nature’s decree of harmony
Balance, poise ‘n life, till death do us part
Rejoicing life, unique to this planet
Craving kindness, common sense, love ‘n sanity
Each touching, reaching, seeking kinship
Fountains of affection, springs of hope
Till we meddle
Playing god
With Nature
Give me love, to win a world
In return, share my own
With those in need
Of love now scarce
A dying breed
Now rendered farce
Dreaming of peace
‘N food morsels well earned
For a belly easily filled
And a heart morally fulfilled
Eschew harm unto others
Needing care not hate
© Alwi Shatry, All Rights Reserved, 8 February 2020