life spins by endlessly.
yet somehow it seems as if we're not moving.
we blink and it's all over.
yet we could never understand where all time vanished to.

what holds us in place.
what keeps us sane when an eternity of empty space offers nothing but darkness.
what lights up our skies.
what beauty provides existence.
what invisible force or energy breathes into your every heartbeat.

i look at the stars that surround me.
and try to find the strings that hang them up so beautifully.
i search and search.
but find none.

i look at the blazing sun that warms my skin.
and try to find the match that ignited such a wildfire.
i search and search.
but found nothing.

i look at the moon that lights every nightfall with streaks of silver paint.
and try to find the source of a light that shines so brightly in the coldness of stone.
i search and search.
but find nothing.

the mystery of beauty.
the complexity of simplicity.
the riddle of life.

how can a world.
how can a universe.
hold itself.

how can a galaxy.
float in darkness.

how can an earth.
cradle life.

with two bare eyes.
i set on a journey.
to uncover the enigma of this universe i call home.

but i looked too closely.
my weary eyes did not see.
my restless heart did not understand.

that the closer you look. the less you see.
an endless universe cannot be sourced in an answer my simple mind could comprehend.
such an answer. could not be grand enough.

so the wind blew me far away.
until i saw all of creation. held in one hand.
at that moment, the grandest of planets that stars worshiped seemed like a grain of sand.
at that moment, the sun seemed but a raindrop.
at that moment, my beautiful earth was but a breath.

and all of creation.
in perfect harmony
orbited
one heart.

love kept stars hung like picture frames.
passion kept the sun alive.
mercy found light in the dead heart of stone.

a kingdom of angels
held my galaxy
on their shoulders.

a kiss of life.
breathed oxygen into my beautiful earth.

what a gift.
a kingdom that needed nothing.
created a world.

so unworthy hearts.
could learn to smile.
so unworthy eyes.
could see winter turn into spring.
so unworthy feet.
could dance in dandelion fields.
so unworthy hands.
could touch the freshness of cool water.
so unworthy lungs.
could breathe in the wonder of oxygen.
so unworthy mouths.
could sing.

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