Daniel Brick - Earth Anthem

Witness the fervor
of our enduring trust
in the Cosmic Order.
Planets, fire and sleep

riddle our fates.
They are Gaia's actual music
scored for human love or mortal hate.
By natural choice we are enthused.

Once in orbit we must
join the older sky-wanderers
returning along bent paths
to their rings of sleep.

We must unwind a double life
of time on earth and time in space.
Our destiny determines
this sense of flight

through vast silences of night.
Whether we stand rooted to earth,
looking up, or looking back,
from a careening space ship:

Let us praise
our sun-ripened skin, our moon-meshed nerves.

Let us enter
the dark cathedral of this holy earth.

Let us join
the spinning hymn of this sacred globe.

Let us raise
our jeweled hopes for this new age.

Daniel Brick

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