The Sky

 

The sky is as near

as the warm place

you keep in your

heart for family

yet as distant and

cold as the Milkyway.

It is ever-changing—

hour by hour and

cloud by cloud—

yet changeless in

constancy. The

palatial expanse

above the earth is as

faithful as gravity

yet as indifferent

and random as a

hurricane. Barring

the Holy Script,

the sky remains

our most abstract

and concrete

evidence of heaven.

 

©Bonnie Saul Wilks

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