STAR PSALM

I lifted my soul's song on a celestial wind fueled in hope's fiery sheen
it was carried through the luminous layers of shimmering silvery sparkle
possessing my panged petition for light to rain down upon all creation
so I could feel eternity's golden rays of love shine into every darkness.

My eyes gaze in longing desperate stare at the cosmos black canopy
for one merciful streaking shower of starry serenade
that might guide us out of the hate's and greed's caustic shadowy crannies
where life might find a plateau to garden compassion's fruit and healing.

The music came in twilight's notes, a candle glowing on a homeless child's face
inside the whisper came, each finger already has the match to be God's refrain.