Echoes of Starlight

I

The human body is made up of 37 trillion cells

there’s 8.1 billion humans on Earth

that’s 16.2 billion hands to do the work

of undoing the disconnection

which brings us to the now

of instant gratification

and perpetual forgetfulness

The disease of loneliness is spreading

like an epidemic

that leaves a single tree standing

where there was once 

a forest

My journey through life

is like yours

carried by a 100,000 miles of blood vessels

pumping life into lungs 

that take in 5% of oxygen

but it’s getting hard to breathe

So much so

that we can youtube various forms of strangulation

“I can’t breath” moved the consciousness of a nation

I wonder how it will move its feet?

II

Oil companies make 100 billion dollars a year

The observable universe has 100 billion galaxies

human fallacy would like us to believe

that the truth of our wholeness 

comes from the little things we can see

but the truth is

whether or not you can see stars in your night sky

if you are standing just right

2,000 stars are visible to the unaided eye

III

We travel

584 million miles around the sun in one year

orbiting one star

our galaxy holds 300 billion

The poetry of the unknown

is written in the indescribable

we’re unfolding pages from the universal bible

IV    

Galaxies move towards each other

like souls not yet born

know when to return

to meet their lover

Andromeda is moving towards the Milky Way

at 250,000 miles per hour

a speed that would get us to the moon in just under an hour

We won't be here when they collide

our sun will long have faded

but when they do

they will be mirrors of what we used to do

when love dipped into the divine

before the divide in us 

became more 

than the great pretending

of current human history

V

Change is constant

like the universe

is expanding