MILKY WAY
 

Silly name

For a billion diamonds

Scattered on a midnight ocean

Lit by fires within.

This celestial coronet

That appears so near,

I could stir with a finger

And send it spilling

Into another cosmos.

Luminous beauty

I can never touch

Garland I can never wear

Conceal a million fires,

Conceal a billion years

Incomprehensible.

Oh, wondrous, perfect thing,

How can my dim life

Compare with your

Divine nocturnal glow?
 

Dawn McDonald
© September 2004

Midi: "Eulogy"

Graphic: "Milky Way"
(Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
CIT & MIT)