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

 

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