I see You with Eyes of Love
Little Cosmic Dust Poem
John Haines
Out of the debris of dying stars,
this rain of particles
that waters the waste with brightness;
The sea-wave of atoms hurrying home,
collapse of the giant,
unstable guest who cannot stay;
the sun’s heart reddens and expands,
his mighty aspiration is lasting,
as the shell of his substanace
one day will be white with frost.
In the radiant field of Orion
great hordes of stars are forming,
just as we see every night,
fiery and faithful to the end.
Out of the cold and fleeing dust
that is never and always,
the silence and waste to come—
this arm, this hand,
my voice, your face, this love.
As I was inserting the photo, Echoes Radio joined me in a musical cosmic dance playing a lovely rendition of John Lennon’s Across the Universe. It was only a few hours before this when I was thinking about the song.
Image credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Kate Su (Steward Obs, U. Arizona) et al.