Step Sessions

 

We have a journey to go on

Called today

I don’t know how many steps we’ll take

Maybe we’ll travel like Thoreau

Considering the cosmos in a walk to town

 

Maybe one place will be literal

The other living

Where stars are born

The nebula inside

Cradles of thought

To set us on our way

 

Until the dark of night brings out the offspring

Literal nebulae

A star for each thought born out there

A universe of mind, as it may

Marking a journey

Like our own,

Roaming energy

Through two sets of cells

 

Two trips going inexorably

No competition needed, no going to war

We can have quiet or make noise

Any media for growth

Though I will say

Maybe going gently’s not so bad

In a night of stars

As thoughts and ours

 

How many steps a journey?

Some might want

To know,

Which is okay

Let the universe and us

Decide

 

C L Couch

 

 

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

 

Photo by Aldebaran S on Unsplash

Newton, MA, USA

Heart Nebula

 

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