We pointed the cylinder up and out
Squinting into the universe
Straining our cataract eyes
Looking backward to look forward
To find our beginning in the past
Isn’t it strange how long it takes for light to travel
How long it takes for tears to dry
How long it takes for hardships to be forgotten?
Yet a star appears
In the blink of an eye
The speed of light
It’s all relative
As a summer romance evolves to a ring
And a kiss
And three sons
Who disappear into their own lives
Only to gather the next moment
Around a hole to say goodbye
But there is another light
Beaming from a grave centuries ago
To see a new beginning in the past
In a star not already dead
I am the Alpha and the Omega
The nursery of the suns
The closing of the wrinkled eyelids
And opening of the eyes
Of the once dead son
So let us look back
To see our beginning
In the face
Of the resurrected one.
