even the stars

mysterious, glorious, captivating
intangible circle of brilliance,
luminous, enlivened, and luxurious
radiance of the face of the sacred,

shifting, refracting, and ethereal realm
of the height, the width, the depth, the breadth
of the universe expanding before my eyes
and within my hands
and beneath my skin
in my own god-self

running toward clarity veiled;
mystery surrounded by four billion stars
in each of four billion galaxies
spinning, burning, living in, dying out,
flickering in the mind and heart of this mere mortal
of whom some God is mindful.