Swift As A Star Flicker
Prayer, it does ascend
Up from the mind into the air
Through the highest cumulus
In an orange dusky sky
And higher still, like a tailed comet
Out of earth’s realm of spiraling starlights
And into the black of space,
And higher still
Past a rare jeweled galaxy
With stars like sapphires, rubies, emeralds and diamonds
Where a nebulous cloud, a violet mountain births
Explodes new stars forth
A factory place, a sandcastle of space
And higher still,
To the top of the highest universe-
That second sky
Swift as a star flicker
To God’s ear
An ear pressed close to the keyhole
Of that other Kingdom’s door
An ear so fine
That it can hear
Unspoken prayer clear
As a trumpet’s mighty blare
And God’s spirit reaches forth
Heaven descends
To companion the soul
That prays.
Michele Marie
