Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Orb of the heart


Orb of the heart         

The center of the sky once was earth,
the movements of planets and stars

erratic, calculations difficult and complex.
The sun took over and flights clicked

more easily into discernible patterns.
And when the center of the sky

became a distant, conjectured,
long-ago point of origin, the earth,

stars and planets began to interact
in simple, calculable and precise ways,

parts of an infinite, well-oiled machine.
As long as that blue, stone cold

orb of the heart is taken to be
the center of the universe,

every outward movement,
every body spinning beyond

will be judged as erratic and arbitrary,
inexplicable and incalculable.

O child of God, the truth makes things
o-so-much-more effortless and clear.

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