Wonder

Have you ever gazed up at the starry sky

and felt your body disappear?

Swept up by the mystery

the magnitude

the magic.

If so, how long were you able to stay in that sensation?

Was it just for a mere moment?

Or did it feel like a millennium?

Did your mind run interference and explain away what you were seeing

and bring you “back to earth”?

Or did your heart explode into the vastness

and take you into an experience of timelessness,

to a realm where there is no “you” and no “stars”… there just is?

The first is a response to asking:

“why are there stars”?

The second is a response to asking:

“I wonder what I am seeing”?