An antidote to despair and hopelessness
exists in the magnificent evidence of
G-d’s exquisite creation, which
always appears in the sky
as a setting sun
plain or brilliant, just its fact
evidences beauty
unsettled, vibrantly colored clouds
all shades of white, pink, orange, gray,
all manner of shapes, streaks, variation, forms
birds about to take flight, birds in flight
the arch of wing, the grace of intuitive motion
the eternal gloss of our moon
her daily perceptible changes
stars in or out of our mind created
formations, designations, constellations
the rainbow’s glowing gay colors
now with my newly forming Jewish mind
showing Adonai’s covenant with Noah,
with all humans
and the too infrequent shooting star
which always always leaves a trail of
awe and glee in hearts fortunate enough
to look.