The sands are strewn across the universe
In as many stars
I can only see a few hundred
From my front porch
But they make me gasp in the wonder
Of my own little consciousness
In this naked pink body
On this tiny planet

In a huge sea of worlds
How much other life is awakening
Upon the fuel of their spheres?
Trillions of fiery globes burning green
and blue and teeming with anything
that has a chance of survival

We are called only to glory in each other’s abilities
And bear a trembling witness to the awesome burgeoning of life all around us

All else is a human complication.