Cosmic (Wo)man

Cosmic (Wo)man will forever be a neotenous child [1]Grains of matter coalesce in Her sprawled-out limbs
And beings appear in the developing bath of Her eyes
SHE is over-exposed in the daybreak of awareness
Painfully illumining Her own inner darkness
Arduously setting out to span Her empty gulfs
It is Her lot to bring illumination, to endure intense glare
BEARER OF LIGHT!
Veiled in layer on layer of nebular mist
Dust advances toward dawn in Her physique

It’s time to learn from the birds in Her body
So we can use new kinds of wings to take flight
It’s time we learned from the plants in Her body
To use new kinds of branches for gathering light

Cosmic (Wo) man finds purpose in giving life
But homo sapiens, having befouled its nest
Only glimpses Her larger body in flickers
Such is the natural condition of a cosmic babe

Perhaps the interwovenness of matter’s laws
Is a tale told by Her endless striving
Because they hold inner vistas of becoming
And She must trigger countless subtle events
To support the material world at any moment

The life-enabling wavelengths of Sol’s light
Are rays in the bodily aura of Cosmic Being [2]

Note:
[1] “Neotenous” means that characteristics of infancy are prolonged into adolescence and even into adulthood.
[2] When wavelengths of sunlight are drawn on a graph, we see a sharp peak in the area of visible light, with small amounts of ultra-violet and infra-red on either side. If the peak were shifted slightly toward the ultra-violet side, the earth would be irradiated by too many mutagenic rays; if the peak were shifted slightly toward infra-red, the earth’s surface would be too hot for life. As it is, our Sun provides us with precisely the rainbow of light that we need.