ALL BUT A SPECKLE

ALL BUT A SPECKLE

I see you there in all your wondrous glory, naked and for all to see.
Virtually alone and with nothing and no-one to persuade or influence me or change how you appear to me.
Accompanied only by others who, like you have similar beauty, they too have acquired their own special lustre throughout their lifetime.
The ‘chosen ones’ have enjoyed travelling their amazing journeys over and over again. Their lifetime not measured by time alone but by what they do, where they are now, where they have been…and where they are now going!
Your nakedness is not that of human scripture but of an astrological nature.
Turning slowly round and round, through epic storms of weather, winds, rain’s and electrical charges forcing changes below on all living form.
But wait!... I see others now rushing to see you, to be near you or maybe just experience a ‘fleeting glance’.
Approaching rapidly, they show no sign of identification except to say they are on fire.
Ah yes they have arrived, they stay clear of inflicting any danger but with their bright fiery burning lights, they zoom past … first one, then another, then several more until only a humid dusty path is left where they once paid their tribute to this monumental earth.
Closer, yes much closer and through the atmosphere a bitterly cold and lonely place for any soul to be. Look! and look again as this small turning planet has now become a vast domain inhabited by plant, animal, and human forms, and all origins of a species lost in some distant time.
Up to the sky I look at the blue and unstained sky.
No transparent or even moisture drenched clouds, just deep blue space. Only one bright light now… the sun, from which all living things must share.
Why oh why, do things look so big now I am here, maybe …just maybe…amidst all this vast universal space…we are all but a speckle!
                                                                                                   WRC