a wink and a starwalk ..

i pass this star
that planet ..
there must be thousands
   millions ! of them
it doesn't matter that i don't know their Earthnames
i never had the time but to glance as i ran ..

run ??
is that what this is ?

i'm simply astounded ..
far too marvelous to word ..

look at that !!
.. wow ! look at that over there
.. i provide no response to my exclamations
it's like my jaw is locked-in, permanent agape


and i think, this is almost like when your life ' flashes before you eyes ' ..
you're going to be in an accident in about 3 seconds
and immediately your mind grabs a handful of memories from your life and tosses them
   scatters them before you on some unseen screen
   all scrambled
a maddening warp-speed playback that explodes your life
a reverse-dream that distills 60 years into 5 seconds
and there's no time to unscramble anything ..
just see ..

except this is no ' my life ' rerun
this is an incredulous 5-second - or 5 weeks or 5 lightyears .. time seems irrelevant now - journey out of Earthspace towards Home ..

and i can only think it must all have been arranged by my Friend
just to allow me a wink in time to be utterly overcome by his creation wonder ..
a gift
a kind of ' welcome home ' present

i'll see him in a bit
..
and a slow, lazy smile ..