See You in the Stars,
Dear God,
I saw the stars in you,
as I found the constellations in me;
a secret unfolded for my eyes to see.
A lifeless old being, no,
you became everything.
Not a trail or a twisting road,
but simply everything.
What loosely held threads I found,
I tied the knots every night.
Till threads and webs showed a pattern,
and I calculated animosity.
For in silence I found a calm resentment,
but now I gather my old faith’s remnants
and sew them back together
to create a tight tether.
This faith of mine, I had torn apart,
pulled me from edge to crest,
and now I look above and wonder
how could I look at anything else.
On a tired road, Nature’s lullaby put me to a rest,
where I dreamt of the day we met.
No, I did not feel some grand intervention
nor dream a saint to answer my moral question.
It was a wave of calm murmurs,
a breeze, the sky nurtures.
Life’s twisted roots brought me to a place,
where heaven’s light shined, all day.
There where tall, pristine trees grew
my soul, renewed.
I heard no sound of man’s voice,
nor the churning of oil in blaring cars,
I listened only to the robin’s song and
at night I heard the wolf’s howl.
The sky transformed from a pale blue
to hues of reds and pinks,
as though a painter’s canvas or a
weaver’s tapestry.
Then night unfolded and I beheld
a picture that I could never forget,
the clouds departed as the stars arrived
and my eyes were left in reverence.
I have found you in many things
in stars, in forests, in the temple’s chimes and rings.
I found you in simplicity, I found you in complexity.
But most of all I found you in me
and maybe that’s all I need.
nLalwani