Just Remains
September 17, 2007
Do these
stars
I see
still exist
or
is it
their Light
that
just
remains ?
On my commute home last Wednesday I noticed a particularly bright star in the sky. I wondered briefly if this was a named star I’d learned about or part of a long forgotten constellation (Big Dipper or Little Dipper? – that was all I could recall). And then I remembered that some of the stars we see no longer exist – that it’s just their light, traveling so far for so long, that we see. And this poem came to me. And then I thought about how it is also an apt description of believers: – we no longer exist – it’s His light the world should see.
