Berceuse Aubade
The heartbeat that resonates
in the sacred space of the womb
is the same heartbeat that now echoes
throughout the corridors of space.
The sleeping child weightless
in amniotic space is the same child
who, after birth, has upward leaped
on a pillar of fire, and looks back from space
awe-struck with wonder at the blue white
water-world of Earth, his home.