eclipse

4.14.14

I heard a screen door open and close
across the field
my neighbor, too
came out to look at the moon
her majestic eclipse
in the early morning hours
just past midnight

And I in my solitude
my new lost love
and aloneness
didn't feel so empty
as we quietly witnessed the sky

I thought of the ancients
the many, many humans
who have come before
who stared up at the skies
to watch the beauty and the mystery
the relationship between the spheres
to question and wonder
our meaning and our purpose
and how we are connected
to this magnificence

I wondered
where we got lost
how we have become so consumed
with zeros and ones
always trying to byte off life
in some cyber realm
nothing tangible
the deepest relationships somehow obscured
by our myopic greed and lust
for identities that we will
never realize

So I surrendered
breathed in the night air
gazed up at the shrouded Grandmother
honoring her for her teaching
of being bright
and then welcoming the dark
with the promise of brightness to return

And imagined that I could carry
the same courage in my heart
as I walk through these days
of half-darkness
with the fear of more to come
but the hope
of the return of the light