Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Poetry: Epiphany

 

Epiphany


Gifts will come from unexpected places. 

It’s not always whole choirs of angels

singing in exultation


Sometimes it’s just a glimmer of light through the trees.


Not the full crescendo of revelation, 

but the promise of a single star, 


burning and fading


because all stars are really, 

in some galaxy or other


It’s all sparks and smoke -

    this universe -

birthing and dying, everywhere 

and at once


But this particular star here

 is on fire, 

ablaze with attention.

Maybe even hope.


Follow that star. See where it leads.


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