Meteors

What is the truth of power? 

What can refute all lies? 

Look at a meteor shower 

In clear midnight skies. 

Between the fluffy clouds 

In Arizona sky - 

Between the fears and doubts - 

Between the "you" and "I" - 

Carrying time and matter 

From the galactic heights, 

Into the skies they scatter 

And sanctify the night. 

Meteors, stone and metal, 

Burning up in their flight - 

Look at their skill and mettle! 

Look, and gain second sight! 

Look at the sparks in heaven! 

Look, and see with your eyes - 

Six, seven, eight, eleven - 

Look, and be mesmerized! 

Hailing from worlds unknown - 

Rich with the universe - 

Ice, fire, earth and stone - 

Passion and speed and force! 

Look at the truth they carry - 

That they wish to impart - 

See how they wish to marry 

Earth with galactic heart! 

Meteors, bits of planets - 

Parcels of cosmic dust - 

Iron and gold and granite 

From an uncharted past - 

Here they come into present 

And bring inside their core 

Pieces of the Incessant 

Into Forevermore. 

How do I rise to meet you 

Before you burn in flight? 

How can the human greet you 

And understand your plight? 

How can the stars and atoms, 

Each one its own world, 

Be in their essence fathomed 

And in their truth unfurled? 

Sun lights us, and we heed him - 

Sun is the source of light - 

But how much greater wisdom 

Dwells in the star-drenched night? 

Measure them, know them, see them - 

Numerous like the sand - 

Capture what they conceive and 

Try, try to understand 

Everything that they know 

All that they have within - 

Know them as they bestow 

Their sainthood and their sin. 

Meteors, flying toward us, 

From the unknown worlds - 

Messages that night forwards 

And with its chill enfolds - 

Mysteries wrapped in darkness - 

Catch them before they burn - 

From the unfathomed, chartless, 

Space, they to us return. 

And with your head in clouds - 

Or on a satellite - 

Meet them; yes, meet the crowds 

Of meteors in the night - 

Look at them as you tower 

And fathom as they fly 

The reverse meteor shower: 

Souls reaching for the sky.